"If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it."

-- Randy Newman

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“A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.”
“I have now played with both him (Cristiano Ronaldo) and Ronaldinho. And Ronaldo is top in Europe at the moment. Both of them in the same team would be like a bomb. It would be an incredible spectacle for the people. What's more, I am totally convinced the two are able to play in the same side.”
“Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1970). “The alternative society: essays from the other world”
“He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.”
“You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.”
“I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.”
“I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.”
“I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.”

Source : "John King, USA" with John King, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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