"In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying."

-- James Wright

#Morning Quotes #Passion Quotes #Years Quotes

“Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. Itâ€™s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately donâ€™t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and donâ€™t worry about the numbers.”
“The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth”

Source : "Hamas Pushing for Lead Role in a New Gaza" by James Bennet, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2005.
“While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. August 21, 2002.
“We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.”
“Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages.”
“If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger”
“We've played with Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Ramones. You name any punk band and we've probably played or toured with them all the way up to and including Soundgarden, who we've toured with three times now. We also toured with Metallica for a year. But yeah, Megadeth was the only one we were a little sketchy about because um, it was a little sketchy.”
“The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.”

Source : "Airbnb founder wants you to open your doors to strangers - and let them sleep over" by Meena Hart Duerson, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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