#about

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#account #autobiography #case #come #death

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#average #average person #could #go #hire

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#employment #established #fact #health #improves

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#aim #complaining #could #culture #even

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really. ↗

— Kelly Brook

#anything #being #i #i think #much

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. ↗

— Russell Brand

#about #also #be happy #care #expense

No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. ↗

— Russell Brand

#anonymously #around #deep #deep down #doing

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. ↗

— Russell Brand

#because #being #bizarre #brain #days

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#about #doubling #every #human #human knowledge

Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#being #chapel #chapel hill #crazy #everybody