"Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America."

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Source : Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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#America Quotes #Columbus Quotes

“Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.”

Source : "Why Fantastic Four Made Jessica Alba Want to 'Stop Acting'". Elle Interview, www.syfy.com. December 14, 2012.
“There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.”
“Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.”
“The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.”

Source : "Nightline" with Cynthia McFadden, www.newsbusters.org. December 22, 2010.
“The bemused Brigadier shook his head. "You and that TARDIS.”
“The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.”
“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.”
“I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.”

Source : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Graham Anderson (1993). “The barber of Seville ; The marriage of Figaro ; The guilty mother: three plays”

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