"Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill."

-- Glenn Greenwald

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“I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.”
“As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.”

Source : "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.
“A heap of bricks is not yet a house.”
“Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.”
“I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm merely a baseball player, guys. In the great scheme of things, my thoughts, opinions and attitudes are of little importance.”

Source : "Profit Warnings Cut Across Wall Street; Eli Lilly Surges on News of Potential Medical Breakthrough; Oracle and Microsoft Wage War of Words". "Moneyline News Hour", edition.cnn.com. June 29, 2000.
“As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well.”
“Drug addiction is an incredibly difficult challenge to manage on one's own. When I think of all the stories I've heard from people, the common denominator is that they all were ultimately able to find somebody who was willing to support them. Maybe it was someone they knew, like a parent or a sibling or a friend; other times it was a treatment center with a compassionate staff who didn't give up on them. That made all the difference.”

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