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“Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.”

Source : "Eur Interviews Marlon Wayans, Co-Writer, Producer Of 'A Haunted House'". Interview with Deborah B. Pryor, www.eurweb.com. January 12, 2013.
“I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.”
“Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he woke up 20 years later, he'd be happy. He would have been asleep through all the ups and downs in between. But few investors resemble Mr. Van Winkle. The more often an investor counts his money - or looks at the value of his mutual funds in the newspaper - the lower his risk tolerance.”
“It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.”

Source : FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013
“If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.”
“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.340, A&C Black
“A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.”
“I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.”

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