"Is anything accidental?"

-- Norman Spinrad

“I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.”

Source : "'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White: 'He's Well on His Way to Badass'" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 16, 2011.
“Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.”
“The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.”
“At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.”
“I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.”
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”

Source : Letter to Lady Ailesbury, 10 July 1779, in 'Letters'
“Russia and the U. S. have announced they are definitely planning several space machines. So it's quite possible that the first space ships or satellites may encounter other interplanetary machines, manned or otherwise. Our space devices may even be closely approached by such alien machines...”

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