"If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?"

-- Joy Page

#Birthday Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Years Quotes

“Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?”

Source : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 5: "The Trial of Jack McCall", April 18, 2004.
“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.”
“Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“Even though it took forever to release a movie, and even though it's a small indie release, the fact that in five years someone will be skipping through Netflix, or Amazon, or whatever and say, "Wow, that was a really cool movie. That was a really great story. Or I was really creeped out, or intrigued by that." You almost kind of forget what it took to get there, or was it in the theaters or not. So that's kind of exciting as a filmmaker. That it doesn't really matter as much the release platform, as much as how can I see it?”
“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”

Source : "GOP candidates focus on Louisiana" by John Helton, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.
“Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.”
“When the Reich could no longer pay its obligations, Germany would go bankrupt.”

Source : Edwin Black (1984). “The transfer agreement: the untold story of the secret agreement between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.”

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