"The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#People Quotes #Profound Quotes #World Quotes

“Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.”
“He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.”
“Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.”
“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”
“After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.”
“It's kind of fun to be sexy.”

Source : "Robin Williams on 'House of D'". ComingSoon.net Interview (April 13, 2005), later published in New planets "Robin Williams Interviews", May 28, 2017.
“As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.”
“Tolerance and human rights require each other.”

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