"Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart."

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Reese Witherspoon

#Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.”
“Itâ€™s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.”
“The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”
“As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.”
“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.”
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?”
“Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.”
“I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.”

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

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