"Americans are less mystical about what produced their inland or meadow courses; they are the product of the bulldozerm rotary ploughs, mowers, sprinkler systems and alarmingly generous wads of folding money."

-- Alistair Cooke

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“My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.”
“I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.”
“My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.”
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”

Source : Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.
“No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.”
“The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.”
“...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.”
“I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.”

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