"I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them."

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Source : Ed Koch (2011). “The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Ed Koch

#Giving Quotes #Ulcers Quotes #Type Quotes

“The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.”

Source : "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.
“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.”
“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.175, New Directions Publishing
“I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.”
“How did you even know I wasn't in my room?" "I checked on you." Finn gave me a look like I was an idiot. "I check on you every morning." "You check on me when I'm sleeping?" I gaped at him. "Every morning?" He nodded. "I didn't know that." "Why would you know that? You're sleeping," Finn pointed out.”
“A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.”
“My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.”
“I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.”

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