"When you are young, your potential is infinite. You might do anything, really. You might be Einstein. You might be DiMaggio. Then you get to an age where what you might be gives way to what you have been. You weren't Einstein. You weren't anything. That's a bad moment."

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Source : "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". www.imdb.com. 2002.

Chuck Barris

#Giving Quotes #Age Quotes #Might Quotes

“As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.”
“I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.”

Source : William Morris, Norman Kelvin (1999). “William Morris on Art and Socialism”, p.17, Courier Corporation
“I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2009). “The Lady Julia Grey Bundle: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.867, MIRA
“There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.”
“I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.”
“We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.”
“Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.”
“Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.”

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