"You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?"

-- Dick Gregory

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“Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.”
“I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those things allow you to educate yourself about different worlds that you have to get familiar with.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.”
“one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2004). “Sociable Letters”, p.60, Broadview Press
“I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.”
“One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.”
“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”
“Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.”

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