"Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick."

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Margo Jefferson

#Witty Quotes #Brooding Quotes #Contemplative Quotes

“Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.”
“I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.”
“In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.”

Source : Interview With Richard Gere, gotham-magazine.com. May 3, 2012.
“We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library
“I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.”
“The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.”
“Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.”
“I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.”

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