"What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do."

-- Elizabeth Lesser

#Matter Quotes #Expected Quotes

“It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.”

Source : "Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox". Interview with Denise Chow, www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2013.
“How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?”
“For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.”
“I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it this way." And then I can change, because I didn't spend all night practicing it this one way. All I do to get ready for the day is the night before, I read my lines once or twice, memorize them, and then I show up.”
“Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.”
“All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.”

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