"We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Hands Quotes #Identity Quotes #World Quotes

“Itâ€™s an amazing bond with your child. Some cultures do it up to five years, normally. I thought, 'Well, Iâ€™ll just do it as long as it feels right for my son.'”
“You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Modern presidential debating only started with Richard Nixon and John F.Kennedy in 1960, although the proximity of that to the Lincoln-Douglas centennial is more than accidental. The reason is, I think, the medium. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were talking, but the talking was in terms of logic, development, and reasoning. Television, as a medium, resists those qualities in speaking - it favors quick cuts, one-liners, and talking points. I think the modern debates are largely the prisoners of the televised medium”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.”
“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swordsâ€¦I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work togetherâ€¦and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”

Source : "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.
“Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.”
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claimâ€”so modestly and so humblyâ€”to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.”

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