"People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image."

-- Bill Laswell

#Careers Quotes #People Quotes #Existence Quotes

“We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.”
“Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.”

Source : Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
“I don't miss EastEnders. I did a two-stretch. That was enough.”
“When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.”

Source : Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage
“No riches from his scanty store / My lover could impart; / He gave a boon I valued more - / He gave me all his heart!”
“Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk”
“Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.”
“The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.”

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