"Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture."

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Mark Ravenhill

#Optimism Quotes #Important Quotes #Way Quotes

“There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
“I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.”
“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”
“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!”

Source : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
“There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.”
“Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1972). “Selected writings: To commemorate the 60th birthday of Kenneth Lee Pike”
“I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.”
“Odd, isnâ€™t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some dayâ€¦”

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