"It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick"

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Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

Errol Flynn

#Wisdom Quotes #Australia Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Credit is money of the mind.”
“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”
“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

Source : John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper
“Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.”
“He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.71, A&C Black
“Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.”
“The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.
“As a label I don't care about piracy. I want the music that we [my band] love to be heard by as many people as possible. The more people like the music we put out, the better the label and artists will do. If anyone genuinely likes what we do they will find us, buy our vinyl or come to see the artists play live.”

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