"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."

-- Kinky Friedman

#Childhood Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Worst Quotes

“The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.”
“When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. Iâ€™ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and canâ€™t be sold on its merits. Iâ€™d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, Iâ€™m the kid who couldnâ€™t play competitive games. Iâ€™d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.”
“I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.”
“Because I believe in my ... proud citizen of this country should be doing. And that is to try and put in as much as he takes out. I guess it's to the hard knocks of life that I attribute this conclusion.”
“It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects”
“The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.”

Source : "The Wizardry Consulted". Book by Rick Cook, 1995.
“Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.”

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