"There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers."

-- Edward Hoagland

#Two Quotes #Kind Quotes #Sanctimonious Quotes

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
“I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”
“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”

Source : Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (the Younger.) (1909). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age”
“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

Source : Peter, Rollins (2006). “How (Not) to Speak of God: Marks of the Emerging Church”, p.10, Paraclete Press
“I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.”
“Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.”
“I think that humans are also set up to survive. We're not as small as rats, but we make up for that by being intelligent enough to make our own hiding places and to adapt to new habitats, even if they are changing very quickly. We have an enormous population, and can afford to lose billions of people without suffering very much as a species. Indeed, some would say losing five billion people would be good for the planet - I disagree with them, but can't deny that we would do just fine if there were two billion of us or even one billion.”

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