"The people - could you patent the sun ?"

-- Jonas Salk

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“I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.”
“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
“We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.”
“It is hard to have a true friend, and it is harder to be the one....”
“After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.”
“I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.
“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”

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