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Michael Bennet

"You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state."

Source : "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

Michael Bennet

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“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.”
“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Mar 14, 2011
“Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones.”
“Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.”
“When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.”
“Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.”
“Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion...”

Source : Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway
“There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.”

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