"Genealogy of ideas. You donâ€™t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see."

-- Austin Kleon

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.”

Source : "Following the lead of Power Line and The Washington Times, Limbaugh cropped Dingell's statement to suggest he "refuses to condemn" Hezbollah" by Joe Brown, www.mediamatters.org. August 2, 2006.
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

Source : Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)
“I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.”
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

Source : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition
“I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.”

Source : "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview with David Rensin, May 1, 1987.
“The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.”
“You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.”

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