"It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding."

-- Illeana Douglas

#Nice Quotes #People Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.â€ I touched Adamâ€™s arm. â€œHeâ€™s my hero.â€ There was another pause. . . â€œThat is the most romantic thing Iâ€™ve ever heard you say,â€ Bran said. â€œBe careful, Adam, or youâ€™ll turn her into a real girl.â€ Adam looked at me. â€œI like her just the way she is, Bran.â€ And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.”
“Even though I grew up in an area of England that was more conservative than my personal politics and my family's personal politics, I grew up with a lot of guy friends. There was no real difference between us. When I moved to London, it really became apparent that gender was going to make a mark. I started experiencing sexual intimidation and aggression. People coming up to women on the streets and telling them how hot they are and what they wanted to do to them. For me, that was shocking coming from a village. I thought intersexuality was a great way of exploring that shock.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Look, sometimes itâ€™s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes itâ€™s not because they've got a broken wing and theyâ€™re hurt and theyâ€™re an easy target. In this case, this particular case, I think that wing is being fixed, my friend, and you gotta make sure that itâ€™s mended and youâ€™re getting in the way of that right now, okay, because sheâ€™s sensitive and sheâ€™s smart, sheâ€™s artistic. This is a great girl, you gotta be respectful to that. Come on, let me walk you to your car, youâ€™re a better guy than this.”
“An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.”

Source : "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.
“I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.”
“Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.”

Source : 1594 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
“The next minute or so was spent howling on the ceiling . Imp No.1 joined in, but he wasn't really feeling it. It shouldn't be "Who do we hate?", he thought, it really should be "whom", but this probably wasn't a good time to bring that up.”
“Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".”

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