"Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour."

-- Gioachino Rossini

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“It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters”
“If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.”

Source : "The Impossible, Inevitable Redemption of Michael Vick" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. August 18, 2011.
“With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.”
“Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?”
“There are three stories that are foundational to the Islamic narrative in which women, and in two of the three cases, single women, are not just part of the story. They're at the very center of the story. Yet, that is not something that you would imagine to be true if you survey the Muslim world from the outside or from the inside. Part of the reason is that we don't really take our text seriously. We don't take our stories seriously. We're almost afraid of thinking complicated thoughts.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.”
“Any more would have been less.”

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