"I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music."

-- Tod Machover

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“Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.”
“The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.”
“The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.”

Source : Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007
“Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.”
“In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.”
“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes”
“Heat radiated off Henry's face. Salty snot ran down his upper lip. A majestic fart propelled him to the top of Section 12, just at the springing of the stadium's curve. He slapped the sign as if high-fiving a teammate. It gave back a game shudder. He was crusing now, darkness be damned, stripping off his sweatshirt and his long underwear top without breaking stride.”

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