"Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride."

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Source : "Peter, Paul and Mary star Mary Travers dies aged 72", www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

Tom Verducci

#Pride Quotes #Impact Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.”
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art.”
“All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!”

Source : "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.
“I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.”
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books
“There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.”

Source : Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House
“To a lot of Africans, seeing an animal is a something of a rarity. So it's a paradox of this sort of parallel life. A safari is an expensive experience and it's adjacent to a place where people are having a very tough time.”

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