"People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us."

-- Rachel Corrie

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.”
“I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.”
“I believe that beauty is a basic service.”
“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38
“I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.”
“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.”
“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”

Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
“I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.”

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