"What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Inspiring Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”

Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
“If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.”
“As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.”
“Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.”
“I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.”
“I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.”
“The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.446, Univ of California Press

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