"People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words."

-- Rod McKuen

#Differences Quotes #People Quotes #Ask Me Quotes

“Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.”
“I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.”
“That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.”
“Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.”

Source : Jen Lancaster (2009). “Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase”, p.233, Penguin
“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
“Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?”

Source : "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.
“I quit smoking in December. Iâ€™m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artistâ€™s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.”
“I did Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. It was a sequence where the president got captured and they made a doppelgänger of the president who was kind of goofy. They were Second City people who were the producers and writers, and they told my agent, "Well, we know Fred can do the kind of goofy, but we're not sure he can do be the straight president, kind of the Clinton-esque." So I really got my back up and I called my agent and I said, "Goddammit, I insist that I go in and read." And I did a great job and I got the part.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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