"My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years."

-- Adrien Brody

#Dad Quotes #Years Quotes #Half Quotes

“Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.”
“I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.”
“I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.”
“Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.”
“Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.”
“Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.”
“Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.”

Source : Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.”

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