"My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel."

-- Gene Perret

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“We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.”

Source : Timothy Geithner's speech at the House Financial Services Committee, March 26, 2009.
“We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse.”
“Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.”
“They hit you with a knife, you find a gun”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.121, Spiegel & Grau
“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
“Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.”
“You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.”

Source : "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, www.wired.com. September 3, 2011.
“I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.”

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