"I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all."

-- Helmut Schmidt

#Classic Quotes

“Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
“I have no animals, unless you count my two kilos of bacteria.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Let me tell you something you havenâ€™t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesnâ€™t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, eventsâ€”they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldnâ€™t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you donâ€™t even notice at first, and then one day itâ€™s there. You wake up and you just donâ€™t have the fire anymore.â€ He smiled...”
“I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.”
“But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.”
“Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.”
“No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.”
“The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.”

Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.13, New Harbinger Publications

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