"Maybe thatâ€™s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place."

-- Maria Semple

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“Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.”
“The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.”
“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Scholastic UK
“Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson, and held them in contempt in either case.”
“It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.”

Source : Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.”
“I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.”

Source : Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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