"It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."

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Source : "Carry on gurning" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2002.

Arthur Smith

#People Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Perception Quotes

“There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.”
“We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.”

Source : David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.
“Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.”
“When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.”
“Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.”
“Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.”
“I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus, this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot, while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened. He tried to feed a bus a carrot, and now you're telling me this country has computers? I didn't know that.”

Source : "Anderson Silva: Chael Sonnen not that evolved". Interview with Carlos Eduardo Ozório, www.mixedmartialarts.com. July 11, 2011.
“Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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