"A lot of books are sold and given away as presents. But who actually reads and enjoy reading?"

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John Gimlette

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“Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.”
“Sex before the game? No problem. But I won't allow it at half-time”
“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.”

Source : "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.
“Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.”
“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”

Source : Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
“It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.”

Source : Ann Romney addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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