"The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living."

-- Vandana Shiva

#Joy Quotes #Accumulation Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.”

Source : "Friday Night Lights: Jesse Plemons Has Home-Field Advantage". Interview with Marnie Hanel, www.vanityfair.com. April 2009.
“I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now, but I don't have any qualifications or an exhaustive body of research to back up my observations.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's really important to just accept who we are, and find somebody who accepts us for who we are.”
“Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.”

Source : Lynsay Sands (2011). “The Vampire eBook Collection”, p.408, Hachette UK
“I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.”
“I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!”
“Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.”

Source : 1984 Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.
“Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.”

Source : "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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