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“Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.”
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“People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.”
Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
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“Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.”
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“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
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“I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.”
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“This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.”
Source : "World Twenty20: Mike Hussey and Australia pickpocket Pakistan" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2010.
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“When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.”
Source : "Dodd slams Google over legislatoin" by Ted Johnson, variety.com. December 8, 2011.
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“America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.”
Source : Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.20, Crown Forum