"Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me."

--

Chris Prentiss

“I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.”
“At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.”

Source : George Plimpton (2016). “Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback”, p.235, Random House
“So to the wretched writer I should like to say that thereâ€™s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them”
“Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.”

Source : WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.
“Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people.”
“In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has a responsibility to make a distinct and original statement.”
“Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.”
“There is no such thing as high returns without risk.”

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