"I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside."

-- Cornelia Funke

#Looks Quotes #Towns Quotes #Countryside Quotes

“It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.”
“The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.”
“Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite”

Source : Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.”
“Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.”

Source : "Overnight Success Does Not Exist". ecorner.stanford.edu. January 20, 2010.
“The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.”
“I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas.”
“I already committed Darren [Criss] to giving a song.”

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