"What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath."

-- Alexander Pope

“In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.”
“Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.”
“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”
“... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...”
“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”
“The public always wants to be told.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.491, Lulu Press, Inc
“I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.”

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