"People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean."

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Source : "Broadway, Hollywood actress Eileen Brennan dies", www.sfgate.com. August 1, 2013.

Eileen Brennan

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before itâ€™s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.”
“I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.”
“Youâ€™re far more likely to see a naked woman than a naked man. Itâ€™s only [seen as] rude because the rest of television is rather tame â€“ it doesnâ€™t actually talk about sex and our bodies and how we feel about them. Iâ€™m not out to shock.”
“If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.”
“In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.”
“Why can't love be a fairy tale?”
“Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.”
“We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.”

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