"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaningâ€”human meaning, that isâ€”is defined by them. You have to admit that."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funnyâ€¦ What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy.”
“She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.”
“Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king”
“I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.”

Source : "Les Paul releases first rock album at age 90", www.today.com. October 12, 2005.
“Always remember, however, that thereâ€™s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “The METAFONTbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“We must open the doors of opportunity.”
“I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game”
“You have to tell a story before you can sell a story.”

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