"When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response."

-- Richard Norton Smith

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“Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.”
“It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.”
“I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.”
“I think it's a sacrifice that you have to make, because you lay yourself open for people to accuse and disrespect you. But it's worth it. It's worth it because not too many people are too honest anymore.”

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“I write my miserable songs. I write songs about disgust and self-pity. Weâ€™re all going to have bummer moments. Thatâ€™s not the stuff I choose to share.”
“â€œMoney to Burnâ€ is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.”
“Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.”

Source : "Evolution from Space". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, 1981.
“I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.”

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