"Multipliquei-me para me sentir."

-- Fernando Pessoa

“Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.”
“Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.91, Random House
“Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didnâ€™t, and then you lived with the choice you made.”
“One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.”
“I was there when Abbe Georges LemaÃ®tre first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. .... It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.”
“What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.”
“I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.”
“The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.”

Source : "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

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