"You can be anything you wantâ€¦ But you must be strong first."

-- Pavel Tsatsouline

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“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her wellâ€shaped tuffetâ€”all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the makeâ€believe.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.10, Penguin
“We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.”
“The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.”
“And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart].”

Source : "Columnist Who Inspired Bob Costas Drops New Bomb: 'The NRA Is the New KKK'". Interview with Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. December 3, 2012.
“HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.”
“When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”
“I've always tried to separate my looks from all the other aspects of myself. I think girls are taught so much to focus on their looks that they tend to have their personality and intelligence develop slower than boys”
“Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.”

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