"The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

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“Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.”
“The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.”
“One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.”
“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”
“I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.
“Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.”

Source : Attributed to Karl E. Weick in Subrah S. Iyar "Why Buy the Cow" (p. 21), 2007.
“If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2017

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