"I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life."

-- Anne Tyler

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.”
“It's spelled J-E-A-H. If you say it like how it's spelled it's â€˜jee-ah.â€™ But, that's boring; no one wants to hear that. So you have to really put that emphatis [sic] on that â€˜J.â€™ And then the â€˜A-Hâ€™ kinda just flows.”
“A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.”

Source : "Q&A with Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman". Interview with James Temple, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2011.
“I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.”
“The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.”
“The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.”
“I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!”

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