"I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me."

-- Cees Nooteboom

#Life Quotes #World Quotes #Hindrance Quotes

“Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.”
“Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.”
“Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.”
“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”
“I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.”

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“Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself”
“Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1950). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”

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