"Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video."

-- Pico Iyer

#Angel Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes

“In the world there are believers and then there are non-believers. For all of you non-believers out there, I have something to say to you...never underestimate the heart of a champion.”
“Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we give it to others.”
“I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough.”

Source : "How To Stay Together In A World That Can’t Stop Breaking Up" by Laura Tong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2016.
“Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.”
“Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.”
“If I say ***** the government, some will clap because they agree and some will clap just because you said f***. I've had countless audience members offer me free drugs but I also got free hernia surgery.”
“For me, being Ryan Lochte is fun.”

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