"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."

-- Rick Moody

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“I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.”
“In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own imagination and our capacity for creativity. While this has some applications in the world, I think it leads to a distance from the world. Going to Congo was for me an act of seeking proximity, of breaking that distance. With abstraction, which is brilliant and vain, you divorce yourself from any kind of proximity to other people.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”
“Iâ€™m more insecure than I ever let anyone know. Sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.”
“What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.”
“What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.”

Source : "Mae Jemison looks to the future of space travel". Interview with Linda Lorelle, www.chron.com. September 11, 2012.
“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”

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