"I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me."

-- William Herschel

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“The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
“I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.”
“Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.”
“I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.”
“The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.”
“The family is where most of our joy comes from.”
“Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.”

Source : William H. PRESCOTT (1873). “History of the Conquest of México”, p.173
“Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.”

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