"I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory."

-- Ambeth R. Ocampo

#People Quotes #Glory Quotes #Assured Quotes

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
“When my husband won the Palme d'Or in 2002, I wore the same dress two days in a row. My daughter said, 'Mom! Did you sleep in your dress?' But I think it's cool to wear the same thing. I have to feel comfortable.”

Source : Interview with Alexandra Marshall, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 15, 2010.
“The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.”
“I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.”
“You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.”
“Luckily my fans are so lovely and I haven't really had to - what's the phrase? - "Clap back at the trolls?" Every now and then I do get a troll that mentions my skin color and calls me ugly names, though, like "Dark Monkey." Most of the time those people have their pages blocked, or you can't even see their profile picture. I can't focus on that. What I've realized is that I have the power to control how I feel about what they say.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.”
“A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.”

Source : "Human Understanding". Book by Stephen Toulmin (Volume 1 "The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts", epigraph), 1972.

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