"If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool."

-- Andrew Sullivan

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“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
“If you can't be the best than be different”
“While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.”
“Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling over small things, we become jaded long before we have even begun to enjoy. When feelings are in balance they sweeten long days and great distances with gratitude and hope.”
“Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.”
“Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.”
“My body of work means nothing to me”
“Rehearsals make a huge difference.”

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