"To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up."

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Source : "Movie 43 director tells critics to 'lighten up' after film bombs at box office" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2013.

Peter Farrelly

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“Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.”
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”
“The longer we live the more weight we carry in our hearts.”
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead.' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.”
“Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”
“I told them that when you were born, God was so delighted that He sent a hundred angels to kiss you while you were in your mother's arms. Every place where the angels kissed you, they left a tiny dot. That way, if you ever forget how greatly you are loved by God, all you have to do is look at your skin, and you will remember.”
“You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.”
“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”

Source : Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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