"I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before."

-- Harry Connick, Jr.

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“I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.”

Source : "Love is not a feeling". "What is Enlightenment", Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.
“I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world youre living in.”

Source : "Scott Rudin is on a roll" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. February 08, 2008.
“Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.”
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
“You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.”
“From an early age, I was trying to get laughs, but it wasn't a conscious thing. I think I was about six months old when I first realized I needed friends in life and making people laugh worked for me. By nine months, I came out of my shell.”
“HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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