"It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken."

-- Steve Almond

#Broken Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.”
“Every president inherits difficult problems. George W. Bush inherited eight years of a failed foreign policy and did nothing about the growing threat of Islamic terrorism, except a one-time lob of a cruise missile into the desert at a camp that had long been abandoned. George Bush inherited that, and 9-11 was the result of that. Every president inherits problems. Harry Truman inherited a war. Stop blaming the person before you and go forward and take leadership and deal with the problem.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“What's a bag of chips divided by five, that's a Nike worker's meal.”
“People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying”
“Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.”
“My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.”
“If i would ever fall in love.....I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine.......but I might ruin them in the process. So I'm never going to fall in love. I don't need love right now. I have friends with the same purpose as me. I have all of you. -Rei”

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