"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Mind Quotes #Dukes Quotes #Cuckoos Quotes

“When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.”
“I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress.”
“The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.”
“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”
“I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.”
“Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.”

Source : Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
“The rush to attribute culpability to a minority after an act of mass murder is a rush to exonerate the general public â€“ how can we specify the ways in which the killer was not â€œone of usâ€? When the shooter comes from a racial or religious group, this is a relatively simple if despicable enterprise. When they are just another white male, the only remaining option is to locate a disability diagnosis.”
“I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.”

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