"Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if youâ€™ve come to mow its lawns."

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Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

David Sedaris

#Country Quotes #Rude Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.”
“I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.”
“There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.”

Source : "Jarvik Responds to Lipitor Ad Controversy" by Ryan Owens, Joel Parks, Steve Petyeraki, Maeyen Ibanga, abcnews.go.com. January 16, 2008.
“Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.”

Source : John Gierach (2013). “Trout Bum”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books
“If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people”
“And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.”
“Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
“The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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