"But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race."

-- Donald Antrim

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“I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
“It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.”

Source : It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song)
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.”
“That was a good fight back in the gym,â€ he said. â€œBut I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.”
“I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.”
“If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.”
“I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.”
“I know many Europeans and I think many of them don't even believe me when I say that people in US don't have vacations. Obviously a lot of people do but there are many, tens of millions of people that don't and there's certainly no guarantee of a vacation. So paid time off is very valuable where people know they could get four or five weeks vacation, which is absolutely standard in Europe. Denmark has 6 weeks. So I think that's something that's very valuable, giving people time off.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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