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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#another #children #dad #did #fantasize

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#berserk #big #big head #came #child

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#been #being #being lied to #happy #lied

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#affording #any #errors #except #general

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#clear #duck #first #going #his

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. ↗

— Anatole France

#greatest #man #perhaps #virtue

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#budget #budget film #cobbled #doing #effects

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#ankles #around #because #body #character

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#accept #man #measure #responsibility