"Who doesn't want to go to the Emmys? But it ends up just being really boring."

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Michael J. Nelson

#Being Real Quotes #Just Being Quotes #Want Quotes

“Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.”
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
“To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.”
“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.”
“Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 18, 2012
“Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.”

Source : "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006.
“The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.”

Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”

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