"Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up."

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Sara Nelson

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“I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror: Robert Webb" by Robert Webb, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
“There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the clan will survive beyond thge memories of his memeries. This is how it has always been and alway will be.”
“Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.”
“President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.”
“I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“...we will not grant amnesty to illegal aliens in this Congress or, hopefully ever again. We did that once. Everybody said it was a one time deal. We were to never do it again. The problem with doing it was we reward people who violated the law. We reward people who came into the country illegally.”
“Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.”
“First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.”

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