"I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened."

-- James McAvoy

#Growing Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...”

Source : Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).”
“Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”
“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”
“God has ordained that His people live by promises and not by explanations.”
“The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.”

Source : "Beat of a Different Drummer". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 14, 1999.
“This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.”

Source : Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
“Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.”

Source : "Welsh star in race row". WalesOnline Interview, www.walesonline.co.uk. January 18, 2004.

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