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“We only have two hours to change people's lives.”
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“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
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“It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.”
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“I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.”
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“I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.”
Source : "10 QUESTIONS: PATRICK MACNEE". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. September 17, 2003.
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“Fathers and mothers,†she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.”
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“The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.”
Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.57, Macmillan
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“Its silly to say it about a tennis player, but Im an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.”