"The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...."

-- Pablo Neruda

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“Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't allow Muslims to leave Islam, and there's a death penalty in all the schools of Sharia against those that leave Islam. Sharia defines what jihad is.”
“It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.”
“If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.”

Source : "Summer Reading; Reading And Nothingness, Of Proust In The Summer Sun" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 2, 1985.
“Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.”
“I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.”
“Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...”

Source : Tim Harford (2012). “The Undercover Economist”, p.113, Oxford University Press, USA
“I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.”

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