"A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time."

-- Louis L'Amour

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“Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.”
“I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven't done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.”
“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.”
“Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.”
“I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent and certainly not the president of the United States.”

Source : "Triumphant U2 steal Carey's Grammys glory" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.
“In America, black is a country.”

Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
“If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.”

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