"So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter."

-- Andrew Delbanco

#College Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Important Quotes

“Even a mistake is better than nothing.”
“Wouldn't have pegged you for a dancer," he spoke to my mind "Funny, I would have pegged you for a stalker," I shot back.”
“When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.”
“Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.”
“You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.
“The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life”
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
“I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.”

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