"When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people."

-- Bebe Moore Campbell

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“It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010
“I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?”
“What you do is proof of what you believe.”
“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”
“When I make a movie, I just make the movie. I don't think about the success of it. If it becomes successful, that's an amazing treat. If it doesn't, you had a great time making it and you learned from it, and then you make a new thing.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”
“Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.”

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