"What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Distance Quotes #People Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes

“You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.”
“The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.”

Source : Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.13, Writer's Digest Books
“I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.”
“The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.”
“The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.”

Source : "A great silence is spreading over the natural worl" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2012.
“Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Bruce from Dec 14, 2014
“They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.”

Source : Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2002.
“Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?”

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