"No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes."

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Terry Pratchett

#Philosophy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.”
“I'm quite happy to leave it still feeling that way, leave it before it starts feeling like a job. ... I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.”
“I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.”
“You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.”
“A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.”
“My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.”

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