"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Two Quotes #Chosen Quotes #Thirds Quotes

“I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.”
“The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses.”
“The fullness of life is incubated in its messy places.”
“But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our story, to show you that what you've done . . . to make you realize that what you did wasn't fair, wasn't right.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.254, Scholastic Inc.
“People who thought that she was busy going around trying to stir up difficulty where there was none or less than she imagined, were quite critical of her. She was, we must never forget, a public figure. And in democracies, public figures tend to attract criticism as well as praise. The most dangerous thing would be if anybody were regarded as above criticism. And Eleanor Roosevelt is, in recent years, getting there.”
“My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.”
“You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.”
“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”

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