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Jeremy Collier

"Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation."

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108

Jeremy Collier

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“I remember the time when I met my first girlfriend. It was raining and I was walking, and all of a sudden this girl put an umbrella over my head. Then my hair and clothes were wet, and she said, â€œOh! There's something on your shirt.â€ And that was when I just fell for her.”
“Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.”
“You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.”
“If you donâ€™t feel comfortable making a rough estimate of the assetâ€™s future earnings, just forget it and move on. No one has the ability to evaluate every investment possibility. But omniscience isnâ€™t necessary; you only need to understand the actions you undertake.”
“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mÃ©lÃ©tÃ¨ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
“I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I'd be interested in maybe being the ghost artist for Seth. It clicked and I could relate to Seth's plight on the show. It became really easy to fill in his shoes, and people really grabbed onto it; they really dug that sort of very minor sub-plot in the show.”

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“Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.”
“My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.”

"Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation."

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