"No one really wants to be laughed at."

-- Micah Perks

#Want Quotes #Laughed Quotes

“Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.”
“I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.”
“Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.”

Source : "Toni Braxton Talks New Movie Role". Interview with S. Tia Brown, www.ebony.com. July 26, 2012.
“It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.”
“I feel like everything has happened naturally.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 2, 2004.
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.”
“I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.”

Source : Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.231, Simon and Schuster
“It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.”

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