"Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?"

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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“If you criticize what youâ€™re doing too early youâ€™ll never write the first line.”
“I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.”
“To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.”

Source : Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press
“I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.”
“I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger”
“I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”

Source : "The importance of being Childish" by Tim Teeman, The Times, December 02, 2006.
“The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.”
“If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.”

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