"If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.”
“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?”
“Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.”
“You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.”
“When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!”
“If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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