"Wise? No, I simply learned to think."

-- Christopher Paolini

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I haven’t been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don’t feel good, and you still get hits, that’s when you know you are a bad man.”
“I don't come from a flashy film background. TV's been a great home for me, and being able to do that work kind of unnoticed, and not putting that out in the foreground was perfectly fine for me. I just continue to want to make sure that that's what it's about. I think when you start spinning out on what other people are doing and trying to chase something, you're really on a one-way ticket to things not working out the way you want them to.”

Source : "How Cinemax’s ‘Quarry’ pulled off the year’s best-directed TV sequence". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 28, 2016.
“As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.”
“Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Permaculture principles focus on thoughtful designs for small-scale intensive systems which are labor efficient and which use biological resources instead of fossil fuels. Designs stress ecological connections and closed energy and material loops. The core of permaculture is design and the working relationships and connections between all things.”
“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.”
“Oh, poverty parts good company.”
“What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?”

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