"When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation."

-- Judith Martin

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Insult Quotes

“I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.”

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“When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on hand a good supply of those pocket books, which were so common in that period. I must have read a couple hundred of them, and they did a lot to save my sanity.”
“Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.”
“Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
“Control what I hold and of course be the boss of myself, no-one else will bring my wealth.”

Source : Song: A Job Ain't Nuthin' But Work
“But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?”
“I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.”

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