"From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling."

-- Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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“The resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.”

Source : Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2013). “Competing for the Future”, p.174, Harvard Business Press
“More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way.”

Source : Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.
“Chris was involved in that casting process. It was a different feel because New Moon was the first time that the Wolf Pack got together. With Eclipse, we were already established, so I didn't have that same bond or connection with David. It was very technical. He had a vision and an idea of what he wanted to do.”
“My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.”
“Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.”
“The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.268, University of Iowa Press
“I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.”

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