"I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing."

-- Mary Robison

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“My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow otherworldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather it is a call for a radical reorientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self. It is a call to turn toward the wider community of beings with whom we are connected, and for conduct which recognizes others' interests alongside our own.”
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
“A happy life is imposÂsiÂble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
“The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer”, p.40, Open Road Media
“Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.”

Source : "Interview with David Strathairn of The Whistleblower". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. July 21, 2011.
“There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.”
“To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.”

Source : Nancy Milford (2001). “Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.11, Random House
“If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.”

Source : Mona Sahlin in Swedish television, September 8, 1994.

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