"It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels."

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Finley Peter Dunne

#Angel Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Monkeys Quotes

“Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.”
“The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.”

Source : "The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Goes Solo". Interview with Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. February 18, 2009.
“Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.”
“I have had so many bad auditions.”
“Think about how many great works of art or game-changing ideas were ahead of their time - their creator's talent underappreciated until many years later. That's how we need to treat our young people - because who knows where the next great idea will come from?”
“I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground I try to strike . . . away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - Oh, my God. I hate that stuff.”

Source : "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.
“I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.”
“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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