"If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government."

-- Meg Greenfield

#Government Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Scratches Quotes

“So, make a real effort to avoid getting sucked into all the expensive lifestyle habits of typical Americans. Because if you do that, then people with the money will dictate what you do with your life.”
“Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?”
“I had co-written one episode of an animated show called Jem and the Holograms. Which at the time I didn't view as the start of a career, I viewed it as, "Hey, someone wants to pay me to write something, and I might get a TV credit, isn't that cool?" So I did it with my writing partner at the time, Cary Bates, and it was interesting but it didn't lead to anything and I didn't think too much about it.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.”
“American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.”
“Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.”
“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”

Source : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.45, Stenhouse Publishers
“In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.”

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