"The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within."

-- Alain de Botton

#Drinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order...”
“As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.”

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“You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.”
“Well we usually just try to do a mix from all the albums so if somebody just has one they don't get bummed out that they don't hear anything from that record, then a couple songs you'll only hear live. Just kind of wing it you know? And sometimes on a tour you'll get with a set-list you like and you kind of just stick with that.”
“All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.”
“I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.”
“America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.”
“This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.”

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