"The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did."

-- Stanley Donen

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Aversion Quotes

“It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know”
“Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.”
“Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.”
“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The earth is for joy, and dancing is a big part of that. And you dance with nature. Nature is always dancing. If you're not harassing it and killing it and mutilating it, nature is dancing. That's what the leaves are doing when the wind blows through them. We live in a magical wonderful universe. And just spoil it while thinking we can at some point go to heaven or some other planet.”
“I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.”

Source : "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.
“Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.”
“And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”

Source : Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.6, Souvenir Press Ltd

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