"Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response."

-- Terence Tao

#Negative Quotes #Surprise Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.”
“Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.”

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“There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.”
“The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.”
“Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.”
“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.”
“We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.”
“I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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