"That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that."

-- Benh Zeitlin

#Religious Quotes #Art Quotes #Men Quotes

“My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.”

Source : "Jeb Bush's forgotten father-in-law" by Michael Kruse, www.politico.com. March 19, 2015.
“Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.”
“You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit”
“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”
“The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.”
“I'd accomplished everything I had set out to do - winning the French and Australian Opens, the Olympic gold medal and the Davis Cup. So I said to myself: 'Why don't you try another year and see if you can enjoy your tennis like you did once?' And I've been doing it.”
“At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progress with this despite minimal funding) we should be able to devise more effective interventions for those who are already ill.”

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