"One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school."

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Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan

Kage Baker

#School Quotes #Taught Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes

“Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.”
“I have been heavily criticized in the past at magazines for my black-and-white photography and the aggressive punch - I prefer to call it strong emotion - to the pictures. When everything is virtually disposable I feel these pictures really stand out.”
“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”

Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.
“You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.”
“Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.”
“Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you'll get the growth and everybody benefits. And they'll just repeat that, because if you're a minister or a senior civil servant, you don't have time to read anything anymore. You get very fixed in your views.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”

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