"The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I'm not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. I like to think it was a healthy mixture of both."

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Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Brother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If youâ€™re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if youâ€™re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.”
“One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”
“The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.”
“Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.”
“I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.”
“I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable to me. It's also still a largely uncharted medium with enormous unrealized potential. I like finding new ways to communicate an idea or a feeling, ways that can't be duplicated in other media, so I take great pleasure in the invention and exploration that comics necessitates.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 27, 2012
“Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.”

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