"Talent is only the starting point."

-- Irving Berlin

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“The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.”
“I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.”

Source : "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009.
“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models... Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.”

Source : "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.
“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.”
“The typical American reports making about 70 [choices] in a typical day.”

Source : "How to make choosing easier". TED conference, www.ted.com. November, 2011.
“There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.”
“I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same fountain of faith. The world we experience together is one world, God's world, and our world, and the problems we share are common human problems. So we can talk together, try to understand each other, and help each other.”
“Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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