"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."

-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Mistake Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Literature Quotes

“If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.”
“I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.”
“I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.”
“It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects us and makes us human. That got to me, the power of these stories, and the lessons these tales give us to create the connection between us.”
“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.”

Source : "Inside Jeunet's box of tricks". Interview with Richard Mowe, www.eyeforfilm.co.uk. June 13, 2014.
“All God's Chillun got Rhythm.”

Source : "Song: "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"". 1937.
“The world community simply should not support such extreme measures when there are so many other pressing issues at hand. The optimal response to greenhouse gases is to start modestly.”
“There's a morality... I think there's a moral compass but whether that comes from religion or just from being a good person, and where one starts and the other begins... I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.”

Source : "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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