"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."

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Madame de Stael

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“Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about the (perfect) game, but I don't remember when it happened last.”
“There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.
“[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.”
“I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'”
“To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The basic and essential human is the woman.”
“Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.”
“No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.”

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