"Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet."

-- Alice Walker

#Mean Quotes #Buying Quotes #Problem Quotes

“The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.”
“It's always a bit overwhelming when you arrive on set and everyone's new, but you soon become a big family. I find the hardest thing about acting is that you have to say goodbye to everyone at the end of a shoot.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.”
“One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.”
“People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.”
“I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory.”
“Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.”

Source : c.1181 De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.4.
“I think the thing that I lost in myself when I stopped writing fiction and the thing that I rediscovered and started mining again is, for lack of a better word, magic. It's the way you can brush up against the inexplicable and the mystical.”

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