"The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal."

-- William Warburton

#Soul Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Taught Quotes

“There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.”
“If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.”

Source : "Ranbir-Deepika must work together again: Karan Johar" by Hiren Kotwani, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. May 27, 2013.
“I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.
“If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.”
“So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.”
“My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.”

Source : Source: poems.com
“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”
“Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!”

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