"Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them."

-- Terence Conran

#Attitude Quotes #People Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.”
“When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.”

Source : "JJ Abrams: 'I called Spielberg and he said yes'" by Katie Puckrik, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2011.
“There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this situation. And vice versa.”
“It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.”

Source : Robert Rhodes James (1987). “Anthony Eden”
“I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.”
“So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world”
“A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.”
“It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand.”

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