"The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep."

-- Loren Eiseley

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“If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
“Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.”

Source : Stephen Manes (1998). “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!”, Yearling
“I wasn't really happy in school and didn't really have anything else going for me; I wasn't really good at anything. Drama was at least something I loved and was really passionate about.”
“When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?”
“I guess they have to label someone the sexiest person in the world, and it is always someone who is on telly even if itâ€™s the weatherman. For a couple of years it was me and then it was someone else. Itâ€™s nicer being the sexiest man than the most ugly man. I live with it, and I donâ€™t mind it, but I donâ€™t go around with a big smile on my face everyday.”
“The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.”

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