"For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world."

-- Erich Fried

“I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!”
“Everyone has at least one story that will stop your heart.”
“Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.”

Source : Interview with Madonna, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 3, 2010.
“How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. May 1997.
“In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.”
“Put on the company hat.”
“Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker â€¦ [I]t does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.114, Penguin
“I never lost money by turning a profit.”

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