"The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke."

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Randy Newman

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“The loss of the religious understanding of the human conditionâ€”that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainableâ€”is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substituteâ€”the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasuresâ€”is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.”
“My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.”
“I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?”
“I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.”

Source : Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.”
“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.”

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