"Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Past Quotes #Joy Quotes #Arise Quotes

“I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.”

Source : "Tony Bennett: Without Gun Control, U.S. May Turn Into Nazi Germany". www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2013.
“I really do believe 2012 is coming. What do you think about that?”
“A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.”
“I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.”
“It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.”
“You want to see women your own age in films.”
“The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute”

Source : Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

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