"I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family."

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Source : Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.56, Scholastic

Jim Benton

#Sorry Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Purple Quotes

“Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality...”
“Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam....”
“Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.”
“Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.”

Source : Charles Tandy, William Faloon, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Robin Hanson, Michael Perry (2001). “Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity”, p.155, Universal-Publishers
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
“....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.”
“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.”

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