"We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important."

-- Confucius

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“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”
“In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawaâ€™s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canadaâ€™s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. Youâ€™re going to want to read this.”
“My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press
“Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.”
“We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.”
“I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God a union of two totally different kinds of beings.”
“The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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