"You know, most love songs are not cheesy and corny. Most love songs are complaints, I think. Or about unrequited love, coming at it from some oblique angle. Only the ones that say "I love you" over and over are the cheesy, corny ones that people complain about"

-- Stephin Merritt

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“I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.”
“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.”
“I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.”
“The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.”
“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press
“I am interested in the subject which is Russia.”
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

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