"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

-- Christa McAuliffe

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“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
“As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Half the stuff I've written was written when I was half asleep watching the David Letterman show when some boring actress was on talking about herself. I would just mute the TV, look over to the computer and start plugging in notes. Then the next morning you go "Wow, I like this". I'd almost forget what I did, and then it would inspire me to go on and do the next thing. That's what I do. Just kind of follow my own little thing.”
“In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, thatÂ aÂ newÂ direction is theÂ onlyÂ direction.”

Source : "10 Tips For Success From George Lois, The Original Mad Man" by Belinda Lanks, www.fastcodesign.com. August 24, 2012.
“Only by great risks can great results be achieved.”
“There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.”

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