"Usually we praise only to be praised."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I don't look like I've been on a week long crack binge with Amy Winehouse.”
“I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.”
“I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.”
“Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.”
“I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.”
“By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.”
“You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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