"Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents."

-- Camille Paglia

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“The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.”

Source : "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

Source : "'Was heisst Denken?' ('What is Called Thinking?')". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, 1968.
“It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.”

Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
“Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.”

Source : Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.
“Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.”
“The reason for his seven-year hiatus in direction: My son Aditya made Mohabbatein (2000), which took a lot of time and energy. Then we started looking for a script for me to direct. Nothing seemed to excite us both. There's a complete bankruptcy of screenwriting in our cinema. I wanted a very earthy and Indian subject. I was tired of the promos on television. With semi-clad girls, they all looked the same. Of course Dhoom (2004) has them too. But I'd personally not make a film like that.”
“The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals.”

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