"It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Francesca DiMattio

#Fire Quotes #Broken Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.”
“I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.”
“Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations wonâ€™t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.”

Source : Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster
“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
“Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I foolishly helped to destroy, he was creating a normal of badness by which, and by which alone, an oppostie norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.”
“I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.”
“Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.”

Source : "THE TV WATCH; O.K., Alex, Smart Nerds For $1 Million" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2004.

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