"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things."

-- Israel Zangwill

#Wise Quotes #Analogies Quotes #May Quotes

“My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.”
“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.”
“Envy is ashamed of itself. If it weren't hanging back, it would go all the way to emulation and love.”
“I heard someone say the other day that they thought it was sexier to call someone their fiance instead of their husband or wife.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“What man has done, man can aspire to do.”
“People say I write specifically about nothing in particular. I don't know about the latter part, but I think the first part is really important in conjuring up a voice that works, or at least the illusion of a voice at work.”

Source : "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.”

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