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#Eye Quotes #Ears Quotes #Hearsay Quotes

“It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better. I could use my voice - my entire body - not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.”
“I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.”
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.”

Source : "James May's Lego adventure". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2009.
“I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.”
“The avant-garde makes more sense to me.”

Source : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. Jan 9, 2006.
“But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.”

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