"I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger."

-- Bill Cosby

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“I have a lot of feeling for Ron Hubbard. His genius has not been sufficiently acknowledged.”
“There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.”
“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.”
“Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.”

Source : Address at University of Exeter, October 26, 1978.
“There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.391, Kodansha International
“I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
“People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.”
“Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish.”

Source : Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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