"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

-- George Bernard Shaw

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“After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.”
“Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?”
“Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.”
“Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!”
“Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.”
“So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.”

Source : "Half The Sky: How to Change the World". Book by Nicholas D. Kristof, September 8, 2008.
“Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.”
“Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”

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