"It's not just people in Hollywood: I'm sure everyone in the world thinks, 'What would be it like if I won an Oscar?"

-- Roman Coppola

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“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.”
“There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.”
“The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion”
“I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.”

Source : "'On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 21, 2010.
“Tony Abbott might think coal's good for humanity, of course it was an important driver in the story of the Australian nation. But when we're talking about the 21st Century and those industries that are gonna take us forward, it won't be coal.”
“..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...”
“The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!”

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