"Nobody gets to pick what life gives them"

--

Lurlene McDaniel

“You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.
“When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes.”

Source : "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.
“In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.”
“In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.”

Source : "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.
“I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.”
“I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.”
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition...”
“Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.”

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