"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something."

-- Criss Jami

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“Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.”
“Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.”
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”

Source : Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.154, Profile Books
“I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.”
“Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.”

Source : Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.59, Broadview Press
“My main focus is on my game.”
“Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.”
“Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.”

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