"Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that."

-- Viggo Mortensen

#Kids Quotes #Yankees Quotes #People Quotes

“Every day, no matter what I'm doing, I say, 'Lord, I'll do the best I can, and You do the rest.”
“Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.”
“Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.”
“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
“No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.”

Source : John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.87, Harvard University Press
“It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.”
“My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.”
“Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.”

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