"People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves."

-- Eric Allman

“I don't see the world in sexual divisions.”
“I have to reign in my personality a little bit. Sometimes you want to go more colorful, but that's not my job on the [Grimm] show. My job is to be the center of the show, and the further you move out the more it can get wild.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.”
“I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.”
“We must see our present fight right through to the very end.”

Source : Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”
“Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.”

Source : "Acne: Are Milk and Sugar the Causes?" by Mark E. Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2011.
“I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qurâ€™an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation â€¦ [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.”

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