"I don't think America can just drill itself out of its current energy situation. We don't need to destroy the environment to meet our energy needs. We need smart, comprehensive, common-sense approaches that balance the need to increase domestic energy supplies with the need to maximize energy efficiency."

-- Edward Kennedy

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“I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.”
“In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey: From the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, The Flight of Pony Baker & Boy Life”, p.842, e-artnow
“The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.”

Source : James Montgomery Boice (1986). “Foundations of the Christian Faith”, p.674, InterVarsity Press
“Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.”

Source : "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
“There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.”
“I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and Iâ€™m humbly aware of how much less a person Iâ€™d be â€“ how less a human â€“ if they did not exist.”

Source : Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.”
“All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.”

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