"Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about."

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Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

Mahbod Seraji

#Thinking Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Easier Quotes

“If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.”
“Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”
“We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!”
“Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.”
“The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.”
“If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.”
“She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.”
“You're drinking vintage Elvis Presley wine.”

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