"The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it."

-- Fred Reed

#Self Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.”
“Each time I'm in a film, Givenchy dresses me.”
“The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.”
“With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.”

Source : Henry Mancini (2001). “Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini”, p.185, Cooper Square Press
“In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from â€˜Who are you?â€™ towards â€˜What are you doing?”

Source : Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
“Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.”
“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”

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