"I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#California Quotes #People Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“I'm always kind of hoping that I'll get a movie that shoots in Alabama so I can go back and kind of get a break from my city life.”
“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”

Source : Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press
“I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.”
“We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.”

Source : Public comment to the US Oceans Commission, 2004.
“The purpose of God's blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing.”

Source : Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.20, Hillsong Music Australia
“People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had”
“I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.”

Source : Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins
“At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.”

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