"In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker."

-- Eartha Kitt

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“My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”

Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
“Think enough and you won't know anything.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.7, New Directions Publishing
“I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.”
“If we want to talk about the coarsening of the culture, I hope you devote a whole two hours for it and I would be happy to be a guest, but I'll also offer up some other guests. I don't appreciate many of the things that are said in our political discourse, I don't appreciate many of the things that are said on social media. You [Anderson Cooper] and I are attacked every single day, I'm sure.”
“It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”

Source : Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.”

Source : "Kelly Brook: 'TV likes mediocrity'" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. November 2, 2009.

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