"We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain."

-- Robert Genn

#Amazing Life Quotes #Complaining Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.”

Source : "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.
“When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.”

Source : Wilfred Funk (1974). “Words of Power”
“I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.”
“The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.”
“Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.”

Source : Emily Rodda (2012). “The Golden Door”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.
“The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.”
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”
“It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.”

Source : Frank Hyneman Knight (1997). “The Ethics of Competition”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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