"The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?"

-- Martina Navratilova

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“I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.”

Source : "An accidental proprietor" by Tom Teodorczuk, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2008.
“When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my dad and heard his accent, they thought they were about to hear a five-minute warning to get out the building. People in Britain have always thought it acceptable to make racist remarks about the Irish. The prejudice underlying that supposed joke was everywhere.”
“I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”
“My only obligation as a fiction writer is to the story, to make it good, so good the busy reader doesn't feel that flipping those pages was a waste of time. And I still believe that.”
“I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.”
“The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”

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