"The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome."

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.46, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

#Country Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.”
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”

Source : Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.”
“I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.”
“My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15,”
“For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Pain is erased when inflicted upon others.”
“Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist â€˜experimentsâ€™ of the 1930s.”

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