"Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them."

-- Alain de Botton

#Annoyed Quotes #Anxiety Quotes #Political Quotes

“Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.”
“Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.”
“I don't think we're wasting people in space.”
“It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.”
“... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.”

Source : Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.147, SIU Press
“I love IMDb. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.
“It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.”
“Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.”

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