"Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."

-- Carlos Castaneda

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“Do your homework and stand your ground.”
“I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.”
“In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.”
“That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.”
“Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.”
“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”
“Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.”
“The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.134, Zola Books

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