"For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good."

-- Laura Cereta

#Mind Quotes #Study Quotes #Given Quotes

“Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. Thatâ€™s why worship is that thing we all do. Itâ€™s what weâ€™re all about on any given dayâ€¦â€¦â€¦.the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.”
“I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?”
“When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.”
“Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.”
“Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work ... for instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.”

Source : "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.
“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
“The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.”

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