"There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change."

-- Frederick Lenz

#Wisdom Quotes #Buddhism Quotes #People Quotes

“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
“What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.”
“My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. â€œNow thatâ€™s what I call a scream,â€ he said, grinning at me.”
“But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.”

Source : "Alvin Ailey, a Leading Figure In Modern Dance, Dies at 58" by Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 1989.
“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.”
“I think most actors probably enjoy playing the bad guy. I think it's the fact that most of the time, heroes aren't written with enough interesting qualities or flaws, and that leads to the bad guys being almost the runaway train, as far as being more interesting for the audience to watch.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Drummond". "Inherit the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.”

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