"Some people have youth, some have beauty â€“ I have menace."

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Edward G. Robinson

#People Quotes #Youth Quotes #Menace Quotes

“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”
“But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.”
“Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2012). “Over Sea, Under Stone”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
“One of the things I do tell young women, if they want to pursue a career in acting, is to get good stage training. It is essential to have a good basis in stage technique. You can move into film easily, and acquire more skill and more understanding, but you can't necessarily go the other way around. For women, longevity of career will very much be on stage.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'”
“We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt
“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”
“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”

Source : "Fidel Castro survived 600 assassination attempts, officials say" by Patrick Oppmann, www.cnn.com. November 26, 2016.

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