"Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love."

-- Ayelet Waldman

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“We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.”
“A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.”

Source : "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.
“There is no such thing as intellectual property.”
“And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.”
“In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.”
“You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.”
“There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.”

Source : Said in 1853. "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Winston, 1928.
“I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.”

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