"I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on."

-- Alexander Payne

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“A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.”
“The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!”
“The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place”
“We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.”
“Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.”

Source : "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?”
“A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.”
“Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.”

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