"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

-- George Orwell

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“From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.”
“I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.”
“Ideation without execution is delusion”
“I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.”
“Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.”
“[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.”
“It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.”
“My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.”

Source : "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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