"At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel."

-- Leon Botstein

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“I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.”
“Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.”
“I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.”
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.”
“All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.”
“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.”

Source : "Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques". Book by Neil Ohlenkamp, p. 36, 2006.
“In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.”
“Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.”

Source : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.123, Jacana Media

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