"I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was."

-- Ezra Edelman

#People Quotes #Guilt Quotes #One Day Quotes

“I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.”
“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”
“You look ridiculous,â€ Wren said. â€œWhat?â€ â€œThat shirt.â€ It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didnâ€™t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. â€œCath!â€ her dad shouted from downstairs. â€œPhone.â€ Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it â€œHe must mean the house phone,â€ Wren said. â€œWho calls the house phone?â€ â€œProbably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.”
“I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.”

Source : Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press
“No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either â€“ although this actual person is abominably good-looking â€“ it does not depend upon intelligence or character or â€“ anything â€“ as you say, it is just it.”

Source : The Man and the Moment ch. 7 (1914)
“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Oct 04, 2013
“Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America....”
“The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.”

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