"The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Nice Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Brain Quotes

“My pictures are airbrushed.”
“A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.”
“The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.”
“They say men and women can't be friends, but that's not true.”
“I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I hate not giving the people what they want.”
“Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.”

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