"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."

-- Gloria Swanson

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“We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.”
“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Source : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.
“Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.”
“In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.”
“He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers”
“Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them.”

Source : George Ritzer (1994). “Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
“When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.”
“If we donâ€™t cannibalize ourselves, someone else will.”

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