"The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda."

-- Alan Rickman

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“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”
“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.”
“Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.”
“When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK
“This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.”
“No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.”
“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

Source : "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.
“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.”

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