"There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed."

-- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

#Quality Quotes #Want Quotes #Bad Qualities Quotes

“I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.”
“I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,”
“A dead man cannot bite.”
“I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.”
“I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with the question of "how did Gandhi ever withstand the hunger strikes and all / he didn't do it to gain power or money as I recall," and its sweep reaches all the way to this part of the world. I think maybe I'm a translator, because I lived in both worlds and truly understand them. I understand the discontent that comes from not having. But I also understand the anxiety that comes from wealth and convenience.”
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
“I was never a critic. I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se. I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers. And I still am. I'm still a great movie fan, and I ,that love of movies is very much alive in me. I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.”

Source : "Metaphysics, Morals and Science" (1962)

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