"Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?"

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Source : "Vintage Keating". Book by Brian Carroll, 2010.

Paul Keating

#Morning Quotes #Silly Quotes #Names Quotes

“Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.”
“great books are the ones we need”
“I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.”
“How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to give you inspiration so you'll go out to create a path to discover what is spirit, what is beauty, what is love, because these things nobody can teach you. So teaching really should be a demolition job.”
“Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.”

Source : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.191, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
“But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.”
“We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both”
“Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.”

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