"It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts..."

-- Dodie Smith

#Thinking Quotes #House Quotes #Different Quotes

“Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.”
“There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.”
“The verb that's been enforced on girls is to please. Girls are trained to please...I want us all to change the verb. I want the verb to be educate, or activate, or engage, or confront, or defy, or create.”
“From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.”
“Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.”
“In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.”

Source : "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. April 16, 2012.
“Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.”

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