"It is always the silly things that remind me"

-- Alexandra Potter

“Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.”
“Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday”
“Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) help the child to internalize the parent's judgment. It impresses upon the child that the parent is not only more powerful but also right. Like the Puritans, Locke (in 1690), wanted the child to adopt the parent's moral position, rather than simply bow to superior strength or social pressure.”
“There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first started we didn't have anybody augmenting the band, so everything had to be kinda to the point anyway. We did that record and toured a while on that, but I just got sick of playing it every night. It felt like doing push-ups to me.”
“A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.”
“...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.”

Source : Jacob Sullum (1999). “For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health”, p.279, Simon and Schuster
“My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive.”
“With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.”

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