"Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers."

-- Frank Press

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“The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.”
“I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.”
“My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.”
“I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail to the person I'm in a fight with, more often than not these days, I just delete it. Or I run it by someone else that I trust before I send it. And then I usually laugh at the e-mail and how funny it is.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.”
“The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1973). “Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue”, W. W. Norton
“I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.”

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