"Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath."

-- Laurence Yep

#Mean Quotes #Shining Quotes #Copper Quotes

“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.”
“Growth solves (nearly) all problems”
“My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.”
“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”
“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.”
“I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.”

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