"And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls"

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Source : Song: I Kissed a Girl, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995

Jill Sobule

#Laughter Quotes #World Quotes #Pearls Quotes

“Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

Source : "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes Magazine, Volume 139 (p. 83), May 4, 1987.
“My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.”
“In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.”
“The only time he cries is if heâ€™s hungry.Â We all have nipples. I donâ€™t care who I offend; my baby wants to eat. If I canâ€™t get a cover over me quick enough, so be it.”

Source : "Selma Blair Admits to Breastfeeding in Public". People Magazine Interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. March 30, 2012.
“An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.”
“There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.”
“There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.”
“I'm never going to be one of those people who is good at organization. But I'm very visual. I have a catalog in my head of things I already own, so it's easy to shop and I always know exactly what I'm looking for.”

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