"My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust."

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Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

Salvador de Madariaga

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“I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried to sue them for throwing her out of the theatre; it was that they took the law and used it to arrest her. That was really shocking to me. We had no laws in Canada actually requiring segregation, like they did in the United States. But here we had people using the law - the amusements tax act - to enforce segregation, and our courts allowed them to do that.”

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“Do I look like the Green River Killer?”
“I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.”
“I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I donâ€™t want to know the time when Iâ€™ll have to come to the studio even earlier.”
“I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.”
“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”
“We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.”

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