"When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses."

-- Tom Ford

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“Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.”
“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.”
“You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.”
“I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.”
“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don't need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself to notice all those hands that have made your growth possible, you will also recognize what you have made possible for countless others â€” and how famous you already are. In this very moment, one of those others may be telling a story about how you helped them grow forward.”

Source : Dawna Markova (2010). “Spot of Grace: Remarkable Stories of How You DO Make a Difference”, p.20, New World Library
“I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.”
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

Source : Coretta Scott King's address at Georgia State University, February 15, 2000.

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