"Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer"

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Jim Benton

“First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.”
“I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?”
“I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.”
“At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'”
“If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.”
“Success is in the journey, but the reward is the view from the top.”
“I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.”

Source : "'Family Guy' actress with Down Syndrome, Andrea Fay Friedman, fires back at Sarah Palin" by Nail Nagraj, www.nydailynews.com. February 19, 2010.
“I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.”

Source : Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

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