"Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become."

-- Marc Ian Barasch

#Dream Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Might Quotes

“I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”
“If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.”
“When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.”
“You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.”
“The Lord has given an overcoming victory to every person who is born again.”
“I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.”
“Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.”

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