"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."

-- Billy Eckstine

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.”
“Me + Love Songs on KOST=embarrassing car jam sesh.”
“Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.”
“Dreams age faster than dreamers.”
“When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.”
“Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.”
“A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.”
“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

Source : Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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