"On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable"

-- Joe Dumars

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“My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.”
“There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal stability, each is controlled by an Arafat-type figure - an anti-democratic strongman who is able to crush all challenges to his authority. Likewise, among those Arab countries that aren't ruled by a despot, the political dynamic is also consistent: In Lebanon, Iraq, and now Gaza, sectarian violence is the dominant form of political expression.”
“The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they paid for the record, for marketing, promotion, publicity, everything it took to make the artist a star. But now we have to go back to the venture capital model. The business is stopping and everyone's complaining but you can't blame labels. It's a shitty business. You do it because you're passionate, or because it's what you've always known. But if you lived through the nineties, nobody is thinking this is great compared to what it used to be.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.”

Source : "Torture and the Truth" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. December 22 & 29, 2014.
“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”
“Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.”
“The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.”
“We must dissent from the fear.”

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