"You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?"

-- Toby Young

#Party Quotes #Self Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.”

Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins
“When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Hayley Mills" by Hayley Mills, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.
“With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.”

Source : The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.
“I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.”
“One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.”
“Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.”
“Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.”
“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.”

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