"I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time."

-- Rory Block

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“I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.”

Source : "Love and All That Comes With It". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 2014.
“I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.”
“We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.”
“Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations”
“Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.”
“The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.”
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”

Source : Song: We're Really Not That Different, Album: I Think About You, 1995
“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Source : "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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