"I've played everything but a harp."

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Hattie McDaniel

“My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.”

Source : Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books
“I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan
“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science Â… it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.”
“... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with many of the sheets lost, others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later hand. ... Like the scholar with his manuscript, the embryologist has by a process of careful and critical examination to determine where the gaps are present, to detect the later insertions, and to place in order what has been misplaced.”
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.”
“Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.”
“WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.”

Source : Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman (2015). “A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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