"I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it."

-- Bernard Berenson

#Desire Quotes #Excess Quotes #Youth Quotes

“People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.”
“I'm torn. I want an 'R' (rating) because we can get a lot of cool scenes into it, but then I like the idea of younger girls being able to see it.”
“As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to have my ***** handed to be in order to get it into gear for the upcoming Sydney Olmpics. Now, I'm on a mission...”
“Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this â€” and out of nothing â€” can still count the hairs of my head.”
“Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.”
“I have just created something totally illogical.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ray Kinsella". "Field of Dreams", www.imdb.com. 1989.
“Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”
“You can't choose up sides on a round world.”

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