"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business."

-- Eric Hoffer

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.”
“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”

Source : "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.
“In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.”
“The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.”
“It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.”
“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
“I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In today's world, only one person in every 200 is Canadian.”

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