"I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two."

-- Pankaj Mishra

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“Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread”
“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”
“As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.”

Source : "The Obama Triangulation: The Right, the Left and Slick Willy" by Judith Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2010.
“Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.”

Source : "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.
“I live out in the desert, in farm country. I'm around a lot of farmers, guys with packing houses, that sort of thing. Half the time, these guys are in their pajamas or in their slippers. It's their place.”

Source : "William Devane Respects the Text". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.
“One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.”
“I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I donâ€™t think that that should be perpetuated. Iâ€™m sorry Iâ€™m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.”

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