"When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'"

-- Jay Leno

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“Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.”
“And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us...”
“If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn.”

Source : Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.330, Simon and Schuster
“The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.”
“Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.”
“In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.”
“People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am â€” I'm white!”

Source : "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2005.
“I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,”

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