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“For me, being vulnerable is asking for help from other people whatever it may be.”
Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013. 
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“Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.”
Source : Diane Dreher (2000). “The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace”, Plume
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“I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable.”
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“When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.”
Source : Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.
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“My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I can rap; that's what I was originally really good at.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”
Source : "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
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“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”
