"The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions."

-- Giorgio Napolitano

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“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”
“I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for 19 years.”
“People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?”

Source : "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.
“We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right”
“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.”

Source : "‘Battle Of The Year’: Why Is Josh Holloway In A Break Dancing Movie? (And 24 Other Urgent Questions)". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.
“I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial independence. And it's always, I think, problematic when an unpopular decision triggers a recall election. Because it sends a disempowering message to judges. On the other hand, it's the only way that voters have to rein in someone whose views are really so out of the mainstream of public opinion that they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judicial process.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.”

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