"I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver."

-- Gene Kelly

#Strong Quotes #White Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.”
“The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?”
“Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!”
“Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”
“Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.”

Source : David James Duncan (2012). “River Teeth: Stories and Writings”, p.195, Dial Press
“Freedom is a clear conscience.”
“Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.”
“Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.”

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