"When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not."

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

Aleksandar Hemon

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #Used Quotes

“I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is”
“I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.”
“I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.”
“Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully”
“So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
“Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.”
“Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.”

Source : "Only Ian Paisley could have delivered that peace deal in Northern Ireland" by Peter Hain, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.

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