"Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me."

-- Carl Lewis

“The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.”
“I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.”

Source : "Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics". Book by Mauro Dardo, p. 69, 2004.
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
“We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me.”

Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com
“We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.”
“When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi BjÃ¶rling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi BjÃ¶rling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.”

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