"Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you."

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Ibn Hazm

#Light Quotes #Care Quotes #Faults Quotes

“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafÃ©s where they like me and cafÃ©s where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
“No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
“Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.”
“So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.”
“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”
“Every country has the right to nuclear technology as long as they use it safely, peacefully and in a secure way.”
“For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.”

Source : "Barry Manilow On Singing Standards And His Real Job". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

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