"As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers."

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Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.249, Scholastic

Brian Selznick

#Mermaid Quotes #Dreamer Quotes #Clerks Quotes

“Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon”
“The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.”

Source : Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”
“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

Source : "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". www.theatlantic.com. July/August 2008.
“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
“By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.”
“You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The cause of the riots were the rioters”

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