"Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying."

-- Peter Bergen

#People Quotes #Important Quotes

“I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."”
“We're always supposed to be happy and positive. There's something about letting yourself slip into that vulnerable space because you can really feel things there. It helps you grow as a person. I tend to enjoy being in a vulnerable space, in a weird way.”
“But if there were two dogs left in the universe and it were up to us as to whether they were allowed to breed so that we could continue to live with dogs, and even if we could guarantee that all dogs would have homes as loving as the one that we provide, we would not hesitate for a second to bring the whole institution of 'pet' ownership to an end.”
“Iâ€™d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to â€œDo You Really Want to Hurt Meâ€ seemed too close to home at the mo-ment. â€œCulture Club?â€ Now his mouth curled downward. â€œAnd you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.”
“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”
“You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.”
“The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.”
“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”

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