"I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so."

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Source : Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.

John B. S. Haldane

#Acceptance Quotes #Views Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.”

Source : "Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema". Book by Wheeler W. Dixon, 2001.
“Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”
“The secret of success is focus of purpose.”
“In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.”
“No manager ever won no ballgames.”
“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”

Source : Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.
“I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?”
“Downtown Cairo is at the center of the city, it is a place that has to be shared between different classes. It's a place where you see the bigger picture of the city's social fabric. It's also a place where you see all the contradictions of having all these layers, classes, and differences at the same time. And this is also where they clash, and where they negotiate. They negotiate their demands, their tastes, the lifestyles they want to have. So it's a very interesting space. I think that Downtown has maintained that identity before, during, and after the revolution.”

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