"Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own."

-- Arthur Frommer

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“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.”
“Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.”

Source : Willard Scott (1983). “The Joy of Living”, Ballantine Books
“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”
“Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books
“Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook!”
“It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.”

Source : "Lou Dobbs Tonight" with Jan Hopkins, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2003.
“I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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