"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."

-- Joan Blades

#Common Sense Quotes #Basics Quotes #Our Future Quotes

“I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'”

Source : Interview with Charlie Rose, November 14, 2001.
“Osama bin Laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that probably cost almost nothing.”

Source : "Richard 'War of Fear' Engel Tells Jay Leno: 'End the Global War on Terrorism'". www.newsbusters.org. June 23, 2011.
“With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.”
“Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.”
“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”

Source : Donald Hall (2017). “Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)”, p.35, North Point Press
“Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.”

Source : "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 203), 1947.
“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”
“The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.”

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