"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."

-- Daniel Day-Lewis

#Birthday Quotes #Age Quotes #Certain Quotes

“It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.”
“The ***** contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.”
“To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end... and thus make your travel dreams come true.”
“No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.”
“User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.”
“I love France. The French respect your privacy.”
“When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.”
“I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.”

Source : "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.

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