"I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well."

-- Robert E. Cushman, Jr.

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“And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.”

Source : "Radioactivity Experiment and the Human Aftermath Wins a Pulitzer", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 1994.
“There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.”
“We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.”
“Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!”
“To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.”

Source : Anne Boleyn's speech at her execution, tudorhistory.org. May 19, 1536.
“I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.”
“Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got Hugh Grant, which is great. But where's this crossover, this blue collar guy who is cool? Where is our James Dean? Where is our John Travolta and Steve McQueen?”

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