"I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses."

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Source : "Pay It Forward". 2000.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#Giving Up Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.”
“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”

Source : Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press
“The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.”
“Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.”
“We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'”

Source : "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.
“I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.”
“American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head -- supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.”

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