"I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad."

-- Dusty Springfield

“We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.”
“Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.”
“I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.”
“I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.”
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .”
“As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.”
“I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.”

Source : "My Life Before ‘Secret Life’" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.
“If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.10, Octagon Press Ltd

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