"We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us."

-- Ajahn Chah

#Virtue Quotes #Protect Quotes

“I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.”
“Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Jul 26, 2011
“Usually, when making a film, the surprises are negative surprises. You don't get what you wanted or what you hoped for. The only nice surprises are those that are offered to you by actors when they offer you these gifts, when they are better and give you more than what you had originally conceived. That doesn't happen every day on set, but if it happens a couple of times in the course of making a film, you can consider yourself very lucky.”
“Iâ€™ve lived the literal meaning of the â€˜land of the freeâ€™ and â€˜home of the brave.â€™ Itâ€™s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesnâ€™t take off his hat, it pisses me off. Iâ€™m not one to be quiet about it, either.”
“I don't regret what happened there.”
“Teaching is the royal road to learning.”

Source : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
“I donâ€™t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.”
“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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