"History is written by winners."

-- Alex Haley

“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”
“I wasn't Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.”
“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
“I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.”
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
“I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (2005). “Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.15, Oxford University Press
“I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.”

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