"People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?"

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Judith Martin

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Middle Quotes

“I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.”
“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
“The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules... One might therefore conjecture that these axioms and rules of inference are sufficient to decide any mathematical question that can at all be formally expressed in these systems. It will be shown below that this is not the case, that on the contrary there are in the two systems mentioned relatively simple problems in the theory of integers that cannot be decided on the basis of the axioms.”
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
“Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.”
“I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jessie Cates". "'night, Mother", www.imdb.com. 1986.
“One of the enduring truths of the nation's capital is that bureaucrats survive.”
“It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.”

Source : Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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