"The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis."

-- Thurgood Marshall

#Country Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“... pay attention to everything within the field of view.”
“My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.”
“Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!”
“As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.”
“I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.”
“Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.”
“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them”
“I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. Anything you get into, you should research it and figure its roots and try to really be a real strong part of it.”

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