"My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

John D. MacDonald

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Rex Kramer". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“He who spares the bad injures the good.”
“It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'm going to live forever, or die trying !”
“I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.”
“Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state”

Source : Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.312, Lulu Press, Inc
“Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!”
“Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.”

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