"Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow."

-- Stephen Schwartz

#Self Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Shallow Quotes

“My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.”
“Our requests are necessary expressly to strengthen our faith, through which alone we can be saved. 'By grace are we saved through faith' (Eph. 2:8). 'O woman, great is your faith' (Mt. 15:28). For this reason the Lord made the woman pray earnestly, in order to awaken her faith and to strengthen it.”
“What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.”
“If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.”
“Content that helps is superior to content that sells.”
“The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money. To work is senseless, because money cannot be obtained through work, but through exploitation of others. And if we cannot exploit as much as we wish, at least let us work as little as we can. Moral duty? We believe neither in the morality of man nor in the morality of systems. [p. 168]”
“Remain grateful for every outcome. Every outcome. Gratitude is the connecting energy to God.”
“We're machines for turning caffeine into physics”

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