"I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of oneâ€™s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individualsâ€“here I was to encounter an entire community."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Mean Quotes #Community Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.”

Source : Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.58, Penguin
“Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.”
“If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?”
“Best way to rob a bank is to own one.”
“The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...”

Source : Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, (604), 1940.
“I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.”
“I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner.”
“Courage has you say in a defiant spirit you can take everything from me, you could cut me deep, you could render me in shame but you will never ever stop me from loving those who mock me, from loving those that hate me, from loving those who don't forgive me, from loving the cynics, from loving the darkness so much that I myself through my small acts of consistent unyielding love may bring on the light.”

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