"I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people."

-- Dennis Hopper

#People Quotes #Shy Quotes #Cameras Quotes

“I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.”
“The more humble, needy, and subdued you are before Allah, the closer you will be to Him.”
“We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.”
“Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.”
“No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.”
“War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.”
“As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.”
“What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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