"One can only learn what one doesnâ€™t know."

-- Arthur Japin

“I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.”
“When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.”

Source : Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”
“I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing”
“There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.”
“We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.”
“I wish you would grow to the understanding that you choose heterosexuality.”

Source : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
“Don't be a victim. Be busy with your horse so you stay out of trouble - otherwise, trouble will come and find youâ€, Brannaman would say. â€œBe assertive but don't be aggressive, if you are aggressive you'll make the horse flighty. The horse needs perimeters like anyone else. Give them guidance, support, rules. The same rules. Don't change the game. Don't let them have excuses just cause of their past. And love them.”
“To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.”

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