"When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy."

-- Barry Hannah

#Thinking Quotes #Agony Quotes #People Quotes

“Choose to win Get mad, then get over it.”
“When I was young and very green, I worte that tune, Sister Kate, and someone said that's fine, let me publish it for you. I'll give you fifty dollars. I didn't know nothing about papers, and business, and I sold it outright.”
“Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.”
“I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.298, The New Press
“Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.”
“There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.”
“It is a contradiction to support increased development assistance, yet turn a blind eye to actions by multinationals anothers that undermine the tax base of a developing country.”
“All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.”

Source : ""All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes," says Vitra's Rolf Fehlbaum". Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.dezeen.com. Nay 22, 2014.

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