“If you want to be thought anything of amongst Englishmen, you must make yourself see their point of view. They don't care for melancholy people, and have a contempt for sentiment. This applies to love as well as to patriotism and religion.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
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Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
Context: Do not blame others for your own mistakes. … YOU are Mother Nature. You have the power within you to be thin or fat, as you desire. … God is within you, and you can do and have anything you want. You must love yourself more. … and then … you can love your fellow man.
“If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.”
Charles Portis book True Grit
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 75 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”
Ernst Gombrich book A Little History of the World
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.
Alessandra Ambrosio (1981) Brazilian model
http://www.askmen.com/women/models/57c_alessandra_ambrosio.html
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“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: My Story
