"I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up."

-- Missy Peregrym

#Growing Up Quotes #Growing Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
“The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!”
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.”
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
“If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 18, 2010
“The idea that boxing lends itself to cinema so well is because it's usually a morality play - good against evil, insecurity and triumph, fear strikes out, so the audience can really get drawn into the drama of it. Also, it was sensual and very primal. I think subliminaly we do two things - life is a fight, life is a struggle and we understand that from our early, early, early ancestors, and life is a race.”
“Oh my god, it's good to be alive!”

Source : Song: It's Good to Be Alive, Album: Tribal, 2014
“Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!”

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