"Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for that matter. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!"

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Source : Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

Armistead Maupin

#Fun Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”
“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
“One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.”
“(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park was shown in Israel, it was condemned by some Orthodox rabbis because it accepted evolution and because it taught that dinosaurs lived a hundred million years ago-when, as is plainly stated at every Rosh Hashonhan and every Jewish wedding ceremony, the Universe is less than 6,000 years old.”
“I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.”

Source : "'Sleeping Beauty' Star Emily Browning: 'I knew it would be more intense than anything I’ve done before'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. November 30, 2011.
“It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds, we just know what we are thinking or feeling, and do not have to learn how to perceive ourselves thinking or feeling.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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