"Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#People Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong, there is plenty of natural, normal good food in the world to nourish the double of humanity. There is absolutely no justification to produce genetically modified food except the profit motive and the domination of the multinational corporations.”

Source : "The global power shift". TED conference, www.ted.com. December 2011.
“You know a lot, but you don't know everything.”
“Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.”

Source : Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.281, Macmillan
“I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.”

Source : "Leila Josefowicz: The thrill of the new". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2010.
“I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.”
“It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.”
“Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”
“I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.”

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