"It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road."

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Source : Michael Connelly (2003). “Lost Light”, p.142, Hachette UK

Michael Connelly

#Way Quotes #World Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.”
“I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.”
“We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.”
“With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.”

Source : "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.
“I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.”
“Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Empowering women isnâ€™t just the right thing to do - itâ€™s the smart thing to do.”
“I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm supposed to find to be important and what is not. Sometimes you see through so much of it that you feel like you're just a leaf blowing on the wind.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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