"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Laughter Quotes #Tears Quotes

“The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.”
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.”
“Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.”
“Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.”
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.”
“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”
“What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system”
“I always call myself a space construction worker. We were only the second mission ever to go to the space station. There was nothing on board. We brought the first three tons of equipment, including some of the Imax camera stuff. We literally switched the light on to the station and walked in. It was an assembly mission.”

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