"This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money"

“Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.”

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”

“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”

“I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I'd had - the enhancing of senses, the way it made thought more interesting. In 1965, before it became illegal, I was introduced to LSD. I thought it was extraordinary.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.”

“Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.”

“There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.”

Source : FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Aug 04, 2013

“I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.”