"He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

#Practice Quotes #Alms Quotes

“Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.”
“He looks like he needs worming.”
“Entrepreneurialism is supposed to be fun!”

Source : Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.37, Ballantine Books
“American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.”
“I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.”
“Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.”
“Film is not a form, it has forms”

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