"I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi."

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Source : "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

Gordon Getty

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“Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.”
“Life without risks is not worth living.”
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”

Source : "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.
“Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”
“An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.”

Source : Stephen Smale, Roderick Wong (2000). “The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale”, p.814, World Scientific
“The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.”
“Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised”

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