"We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves."

-- Al McGuire

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“I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.”
“Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.”
“Seek and find the freedom of the spirit, for where there is true freedom, there is peace, and where there is peace, there is love,and it is love that unlocks all doors.”
“The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.”
“Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.”

Source : "If Davide Geffen or Elton John is rich, isn't it a sigh of God's favor?". The Advocate Magazine, April 28, 1998.
“Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with lovely countryside, dogs and horses, rose gardens, the Armada, the Battle of Britain.”
“The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.”
“I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.”

Source : "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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