"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."

-- John Jay Hooker

#Democracy Quotes #Trying Quotes #Cost Quotes

“I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.”

Source : Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.237, Random House
“I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.”
“Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that [Buckminster] Fuller is talking about when he talked about putting a dome over Manhattan, which is to say an attempt at integrating all of these different technologies in a way that makes for a city that, without having an actual dome, thermodynamically manages the heat flow for that urban environment and therefore makes it so that it is a highly efficient machine for a living or a dwelling machine as he would have preferred in terms of thermodynamically optimizing it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.”
“I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.”
“It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.”
“Risk is what you make of it.”

Source : Chicago Mercantile Exchange advertisement,
“Depression is always in the details.”

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