"The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision."

-- Frank Rich

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“I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.”
“When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.”
“It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.”
“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”
“But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.”

Source : "Alvin Ailey, a Leading Figure In Modern Dance, Dies at 58" by Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. December 2, 1989.
“No animal needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”
“There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.”
“It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!”

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