"One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom...."

-- Gerald Brenan

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“In my experience, some of the biggest obstacles to becoming a successful entrepreneur aren't financial or structural - they are internal and psychological. It's important for dreamers to believe in themselves and their ideas, to fend off the skeptics and find others who will share in their dreams. Once you understand that being called "crazy" is a compliment, you realize that you can get beyond other people's opinions and zig when others zag.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.”

Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
“I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.”

Source : Source: www.newsletter.co.uk
“Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.”
“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”
“OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?”
“It's in the darkness of men's eyes that they get lost.”
“NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.”

Source : "Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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