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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”
Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.”
Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
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“Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.”
Source : "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 4, 2008.
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“I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.”
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“I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.”
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“A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”
Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”
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“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”