"We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#People Quotes #Distinction Quotes #Virtuous Quotes

“You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.”
“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.”
“I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.”

Source : Source: www.hitfix.com
“I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.”
“I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial
“YOU are using a frisbee as a plate." "Uh, what? I'm not using a--oh hang on, this is a frisbee. Weird." Victor glared at me. "Dude, calm down, I'll wash it afterward. It's probably dishwasher safe.”
“The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.”

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