"I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?"

-- Scott Rolen

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“Life is the best and only timekeeper.”
“If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.”

Source : "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.
“Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press
“Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.”

Source : Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.
“Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?”
“There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, 'Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, 'Eww, gross!' But we demand it.”
“Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.”

Source : Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.221
“You have to know why you get up every morning.”

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