"To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally."

-- David Simon

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“SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.”
“I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.”
“Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.”
“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”
“To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan
“You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying menâ€”this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.”
“BeyoncÃ© can handle any record you put in front of her. Any record that pushes her in that direction, it would have been good to be on the project.”

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