"But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music."

-- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.”
“We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt.”
“Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.”
“People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'”

Source : "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.
“When I did 'Dancing With the Stars,' I got literally thousands of emails from people saying, 'We relate to you. I've been divorced. I'm raising kids on my own.' Or, 'You've had money. You've lost money.'”
“You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.”

Source : Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion
“His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.”
“Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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