"So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing."

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Richard O'Brien

#Kind Quotes #Fame Quotes #Empty Quotes

“My great grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.”
“Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.”
“Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.”
“It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.”
“Men are born, and then they're formed.”
“I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.”
“I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so Ive always felt other.”

Source : "In 'Storied Life,' Characters Come With A Reading List". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. March 28, 2014.
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”

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