"I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city."

-- Penelope Keith

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“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”
“Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.93, Profile Books
“What I think is so special about "Goosebumps" [movie] is it kind of a badge of courage for kids. They're scared and then they get through it and they're so proud of themselves that they made it through.”
“Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.”
“We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority”

Source : The Right Livelihood Award Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2005.
“I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.”
“Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.”
“Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.”

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