"This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did."

-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

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“I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.”
“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.”

Source : "Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary". Book by Hannah Szenes, 1938.
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
“The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time”
“The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.”
“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”

Source : BBC Reith Lectures, 1967, in 'Listener' 30 November 1967
“When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."”
“The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.”

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