"Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life."

-- James G. Frazer

#Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes #Useless Quotes

“A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.”
“Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.”
“Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.”
“Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.”
“I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome. Why did I not ever wear jean shorts? That's so crazy. I was so skinny. I didn't have any cellulite what was I thinking? I was more willing to wear short skirts after I had my kids. I never wore them before. Ever. I was so self-conscious. Now I'm a lot more confident in my skin - because who cares? At the end of the day, it's so much time spent on something that really doesn't matter that much.”
“People are strange when you're a stranger.”
“And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.”
“I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.”

Source : Interview with Oliver Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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