"The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.”

Source : Source: www.tvequals.com
“Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”
“Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.”
“Your lucky enough to be different, never change”
“Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I aint gonna live the next one.”
“Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.”

Source : Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.152, Hachette UK
“Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.”

Source : Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.75, New York Review of Books
“There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.”

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