"Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough."

“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”

“We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.”

“Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.”

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“What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.”

“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.”

“I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.”

Source : "Survivor‘s Rob & Amber Mariano Welcome Daughter Carina Rose". Interview with Cynthia Wang, celebritybabies.people.com. December 20, 2010.

“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”