"For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gish Jen

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“Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.”
“Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.76, Penguin
“Not only was I not white, to many people I wasnâ€™t Asian either”
“Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal.”
“A church is not a church when the passion for souls is gone.”

Source : Lee Roberson (2000). “Double-Breasted”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand. . .”

Source : "Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State". Book by Gary Allen, 1976.
“Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.”

Source : Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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