"There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'."

-- Chris Isaak

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“The war in Iraq is a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times a new world order can emerge.”
“The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”

Source : Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
“When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners”
“It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.”
“Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.”

Source : Sharman Apt Russell (2002). “Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers”, p.2, Basic Books

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