"I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories. Every story you have to report is just part of something bigger. The news isn't what happened last night - it's some cumulative thing that's happened over centuries. I found it hard to think of one event and drag it out of a bubbling pot and present it as the story that explains it all."

-- Terry Pratchett

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Events Quotes

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

Source : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
“The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.”
“I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
“I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.”
“As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.”
“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”

Source : Marsden Hartley, Alfred Stieglitz, James Timothy Voorhies (2002). “My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915”, p.58, Univ of South Carolina Press
“I'm in a mood, Dave. A bad mood, a very bad mood! I was fired from my ice cream truck job today! No more Fudgicles!”
“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

Source : Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

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