"Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

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“I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.”
“I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.”

Source : "The GQA: The Black Keys". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. March 28, 2012.
“What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.344, The New Press
“Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.”

Source : Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”
“How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.”
“Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.”
“If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly showing career women who are also successful mothers and also look gorgeous. And we fall into believing that these fictional lives are somehow accurate depictions of what our real lives should be about.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Well, Jen and Josh are the two funniest people on set. They're absolutely insane. If you put them together, it's just a disaster, But, I mean, it's so much fun! They're both probably the funniest people on set.”

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