"You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire."

-- Hanif Kureishi

#Yesterday Quotes #Desire Quotes #Beating Yourself Up Quotes

“The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.”

Source : "Profile: Fredrik Reinfeldt". news.bbc.co.uk. September 18, 2006.
“The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional â€œlive audienceâ€ quickly conspire to create a â€œperfect stormâ€ of perpetual bickering.”

Source : Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.164, Faber & Faber
“Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.”
“There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.”
“What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?”
“It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.”
“Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.”
“I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain white dissolves were used that would try to emulate the look and feel of comic book panel borders. Sometimes they would frame shots in panels or circles that gave it a real comic book feel.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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