"I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know."

-- L'Wren Scott

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“Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.”
“My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.”
“We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something.”
“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”
“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”
“Don't bury your failures, let them inspire you.”
“You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.”

Source : "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.
“And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”

Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.338, Random House

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