"I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained."

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Benjamin Clementine

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“No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.”

Source : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
“There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,”

Source : Leon Levy, Eugene Linden (2009). “The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market”, p.8, PublicAffairs
“I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

Source : Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.256, Vintage
“I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”
“The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks”
“It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's not the American way. It's not the constitutional way.”
“Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.”

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