"If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty."

-- Buddy Hackett

“When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.”
“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”
“Children want to do what grownups do.”
“I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.”

Source : "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.
“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.”
“You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.”
“At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.30, Penguin UK
“I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.”

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