"I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier."

-- Washington Irving

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“I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.”
“I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson's ears.”
“In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be”
“For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.”

Source : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin
“It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive me for all the wrong things Iâ€™ve done and all the good things that I have failed to do. And they would still find a little compassion within them to pity me.”
“If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.”
“I stopped singing and they gave me an award.”

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

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