"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Country Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Travel Quotes

“One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.”

Source : Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press
“Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.”
“I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.”
“You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.”
“The freedom of poetic license.”
“Survival is nothing more than recovery.”
“What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage than before. Since the cost of fertilizer, relative to the resultant gain in crop sales, is lower than that of any other economic input, and since the Land Bank pays the farmer for acreage not in crops, the new technology pays him well. The cost-in environmental degradation-is borne by his neighbors in town who find their water polluted. The new technology is an economic success-but only because it is an ecological failure.”
“My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.”

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