"When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash."

-- Barney Frank

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“I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, "Oh, I could have done that a little bit better," or, "I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better."”

Source : "InDepth InterView Tony Awards Edition: Josh Young On JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, EVITA & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 5, 2012.
“A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.”

Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK
“Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.”

Source : David Samuels (2008). “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”
“Plato's cave is full of freaks.”
“As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.”
“When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.”

Source : "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.
“My attitude is born out of necessity. I've made mistakes. I've made decisions I regretted. I know what it's like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take over, I'd never get out of bed in the morning.”

Source : Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.743, Penguin
“The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.”

Source : "Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons".

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