"When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

Peg Bracken

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“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”
“How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?”
“The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.”
“There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.”
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.”
“Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.”
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

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