"But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show."

-- Bel Kaufman

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“I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.”
“I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.”
“Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.”

Source : Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company
“I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.”
“With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close.”
“Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the common denominator is that they all were ultimately able to find somebody who was willing to support them. Maybe it was someone they knew, like a parent or a sibling or a friend; other times it was a treatment center with a compassionate staff who didn't give up on them. That made all the difference.”
“Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.”

Source : "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April 1994.
“We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.”

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