"I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you."

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Jean Shepherd

#White Quotes #Cost Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.”
“I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.”
“As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.”
“Israel is the second Silicon Valley, and it is therefore the only other place we have chosen to expand our activities.”
“Mediocrity is underrated.”

Source : "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.
“The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.”
“I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.”
“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”

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