"Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know."

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Let me tell you about my family.”
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
“Our job is, first and foremost, to make sure our family is whole.”
“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”

Source : Ben & Candy Carson @RealBenCarson, twitter.com. October 29, 2013.
“There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty- in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub-our immediate duty is to stop it.”
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”

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