"I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look."

-- Mark Leyner

#Yards Quotes #Looks Quotes

“They are all different and I find it hard to tell what flute suits me best.”
“My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.”
“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”
“Not to decide is to decide.”
“Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.”
“But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.”
“There is another component that makes us who we are. It is a fantasy comprising all of our actions and thoughts. Itâ€™s called an opinion. And we will die for our opinion”
“When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a girl Like the stars are to the sky It's funny how the world lives up to All your expectations With adventures for the stout of heart And the lure of the open spaces There's two lanes running down this road And whichever side you're on Accounts for where you want to go Or what you're running from Back when darkness overtook me On a blind man's curve I relied upon the moon and Saint Christopher”

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