"Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything."

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Source : Meg Rosoff (2007). “Just in Case”, p.85, Penguin UK

Meg Rosoff

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“If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.”

Source : Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.12, Crown Business
“But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!”

Source : Source: mobo.com
“I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.”

Source : Source: m.motherjones.com
“I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.”
“It is [every womanâ€™s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.”
“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Way Station”, p.168, Open Road Media
“It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.”

Source : Martin Hengel (1986). “The cross of the Son of God”, Trinity Pr Intl

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