"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."

-- John Lahr

#Science Quotes #Silence Quotes #Noise Quotes

“My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.”
“I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.”
“A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.”
“You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.”
“We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.”
“Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.”

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