"It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS."

-- Bruce Davison

#People Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.238, Penguin Books India
“when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans”
“The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she wonâ€™t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back â€“ and at some point everyone looks back â€“ she will hear her heart saying, â€œWhat have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.”
“I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.”

Source : Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown
“Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.”
“The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.”

Source : "Quantum gravity". Book by Carlo Rovelli, 2004.

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