"i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires"

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Boredom Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Desire Quotes

“... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of menâ€™s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasnâ€™t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masonsâ€™ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”
“To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.”
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press
“I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.”
“I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.”
“I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.”
“I am love, I am music, she thinks. Letâ€™s dance.”

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