"Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived."

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Fred D'Aguiar

#Teaching Quotes #Historical Quotes #Moments Quotes

“All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice until everyone has had an opportunity to hear it at least once.”
“I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point.”

Source : "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.
“I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.”
“As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.”

Source : "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.
“How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?”
“I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.”
“There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.”

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