"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."

-- Knut Hamsun

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“Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.”
“Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man”
“Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel"; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason, because it is his own.”
“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.”

Source : "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.
“There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: itâ€™s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.”

Source : Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.138, BookBaby
“In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.”
“If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can perform. Whereas you can have done 50 movies, but if you're unsure this time, your movie may not turn out.”
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.36, Vintage

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