"I donâ€™t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of."

-- Alice Walker

#Numbers Quotes #Needs Quotes #Certain Quotes

“If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?”
“The Nazis quite clearly killed millions of Jews”

Source : Interview with John Humphrys, "Today" on BBC Radio 4, December 23, 2006.
“There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk.”
“There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.”
“Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.”
“I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

Source : James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.101
“Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.”

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