"If you want to see the greatest threat to your financial future, go home and take a look in the mirror."

-- Jonathan Clements

#Home Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Looks Quotes

“People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.”
“There are certain jobs I don't take because I feel no connection to the person. But if somebody is open with me, and honest about their motivations, and has some level of self- awareness, then I'm going to understand them.”

Source : "Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
“A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.”
“We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.”
“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
“I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.”
“Your vigor for life appalls me.”

Source : "Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977". Book by Robert Crumb, 1998.

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