"Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes."

-- Clive Bell

#Baby Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.”
“I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.”
“If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.259, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
“Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven.”
“Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.”

Source : "The Liberation of General Motors". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 19, 2012.
“We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.”
“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.”
“Every person needs to take one day away.Â A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.Â Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.Â Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.Â Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”

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