"Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Sound Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs.”
“I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.”
“Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own, including logic and morality. Even among humans, morality is ignored when expedient. Why should we expect more from an alien life form than we demand from ourselves?”
“Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.”
“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
“Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.”
“The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.”

Source : "Fred Armisen On SNL’s ‘The Californians’ Sketch: ‘I’m So Glad Cities Have Personalities’" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19,2012.
“I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.”

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