"One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country."

-- Tom Brokaw

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“I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.”
“I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.”
“I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.”
“A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.”
“Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.”

Source : "Alec Baldwin: A 'Rock' Throughout The Ages". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 25, 2012.
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jennifer Niven from Jun 29, 2016
“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”
“Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a womanâ€™s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.”

Source : Christian Rudder (2014). “Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves”, p.49, Crown

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