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“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.”
Source : Twitter post from Apr 20, 2015
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“But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.”
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“Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.”
Source : FaceBook post by Robin Thicke from Nov 28, 2011
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“You must look at the processes of motion in the macrocosmos and microcosmos accurately, and copy them!”
Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
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“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
Source : "Nonconformity: Writing on Writing". Book by Nelson Algren, 1996.
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“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”
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“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.”
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“No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner, and it caused me to do the same with my job.”
Source : Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum