"how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!"

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Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

Muriel Lester

#Self Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“Sometimes when it goes really well, you wonder, who's that at the piano?”

Source : Interview by Jason Gross, www.furious.com. January 2001.
“It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.”
“Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.”
“The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.”
“I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.”
“Follow your passion, weâ€™re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? Itâ€™s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north â€” and itâ€™s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.”
“Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'”
“I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.”

Source : "David S. Goyer Talks His Involvement with GODZILLA and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 4, 2013.

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