"The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket."

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Jose Bergamin

#Life Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.”
“Above all else I am a dilettante in life.”
“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”

Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
“I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.”
“Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.”
“What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.8, Island Press
“I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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