"Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel."

-- Ernest Renan

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“Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.”
“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.”
“For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.”
“Believe it or not, but even when Iâ€™m sleeping, Iâ€™m dreaming about meeting fans”
“Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.”
“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)
“An angel of God never has wings.”

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