"What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?"

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Source : Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

Giordano Bruno

#Pain Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Absent Quotes

“I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.”
“Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.”
“I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.”
“Politics is history in the making.”
“It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.”
“In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.”

Source : "Happy 60th Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg! Our Favorite Quotes From The Actress" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2015.
“I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.”

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