"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical Quotes #Tears Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.”

Source : "Eugene Levy: 'American Pie got kinda graphic'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.
“I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.”

Source : "Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino backstage at Big Day Out '13". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. March 21, 2013.
“A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.”
“You play a certain way for so long, and change is good. So I look forward to change, and I look forward to playing with the proper talent that we were able to put together.”
“Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.”
“All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath.”
“Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.”
“After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'”

Source : "QA: Angie Harmon on Raising Three Girls and 'Coming Out' as a Republican in Hollywood". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2011.

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