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Sing (2016) 🎬

Buster Moon : "You know what’s great about hitting rock bottom, there’s only one way left to go, and that’s up!"

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami 📕

"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them."

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Translated by Jane English and Gia-fu Feng 📕

"Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil."

Brian Cox (Physicist) 🎤

"What more do you want? [...] the ingredients in our bodies are assembled from the hearts of long dead stars over billions of years. And have assembled themselves spontaneously into temporary structures [...] we exist in this little window where we can observe this magnificent universe."

How To Do What You Love, by Paul Graham 📝

"Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. If you do anything well enough, you'll make it prestigious."

My mother about my lack of a fashion sense 🎤

"Anni, how can you have fun, if you don't look like you are having fun?"

Bravado by Lorde 🎵

"It's in your blood stream. A collision of atoms that happens before your eyes. It's a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size."

The Egg by Andy Weir 📕

"Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you."

J. Robert Oppenheimer 🎤

"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that one way or another."