"Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!"

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Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

David Sedaris

#Country Quotes #Queens Quotes #July Quotes

“I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.”
“The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking ...”

Source : Sharon Begley (2008). “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves”, p.254, Ballantine Books
“The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.”
“I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.”
“If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christian.”
“To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maruâ€¦sucks to be you.”
“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.”
“Life is full of chances. Take it lightly.”

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