"I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting."

-- David McCallum

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“One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.”
“You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.”
“Game design isnâ€™t just a technological craft. Itâ€™s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.”
“Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our pride and carelesness, to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla -- that strangely innocent and tragic monster -- has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain.”

Source : "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.
“you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek, Martin Chalmers (1994). “Women as Lovers”, p.57, Profile Books
“People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.”
“America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.”
“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shapeâ€”determineâ€”what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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