"Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring."

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Julia Glass

#People Quotes #Guessing Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage
“I have learned from the first Olympics, of course. When I went to my first Olympic Games, I experienced all of the pressure and was able to win the gold medal. I try not to feel the pressure, and I try not to be nervous when I am on the ice and when I compete.”
“He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.
“I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.”
“English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.”
“When I was at McGill medical school, there was a writer, Ted Rosenthal, who used to write for the New York Times - tragically he died of leukemia at a very young age. He talked about how we can have an opportunity to live a lifetime in a moment, in a day, in a month, in a year - when you're confronted with the finite reality of your own existence, all these moments become lifetimes.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I've always felt like a foreigner wherever I've lived. I don't feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.”

Source : "This much I know: Tom Conti". Interview With Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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