"It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on."

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Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

John Wyndham

#Stills Quotes #Humiliating Quotes

“Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.”

Source : "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.
“I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.”
“Look at Germany where 20 percent of the labor force is in manufacturing compared to about 8 percent in the United States. Germany pays a lot more conscious attention at the level of the federal government to attracting and keeping manufacturers in Germany. So this is something that other countries do that the United States has not historically done.”

Source : "Trump's 'Interventionist Approach' To Economic Policy Presents Consequences". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.
“You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.281, Random House
“I was just sort of moving through time.”
“People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.”
“My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.”
“The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.”

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