"Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful."

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Source : "The Armies of Memory".

John Barnes

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Useless Quotes

“I hardly ever go back to Florida. It's really hard to go back. I mean, I hated it so much. I didn't grow up in a great neighborhood, and it puts me back in that feeling of, "I want to get out immediately." That was kind of the push and what still pushes me, that I don't want to end up back there.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.”
“Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.”
“Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.”
“...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadnâ€™t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldnâ€™t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!”
“I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.”

Source : "Tomlin Looks Ahead". Interview with Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. August 01, 2009.
“I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.”
“I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.”

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