"I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out."

-- Greg LeMond

#Phones Quotes #People Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”

Source : "'Greening of America' Author To Present Lecture Series". Yale Bulletin and Calendar, Volume 29, No. 4, archives.news.yale.edu. September 29, 2000.
“As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.”
“Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?”
“Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.”

Source : Hector Berlioz (1884). “Autobiography of Hector Berlioz: Member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1865. Comprising His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England”
“This is America. Weâ€™re entitled to our opinions.â€ â€œWrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.”
“I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.”
“When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three times around the block to get in. And when they got to the head of the queue, they'd go, "I'll have a Big Mac please. Have you the cheese and the rolls? And do you have the meat and do you have the salad?" And everybody asks this because they are so used to things being awful that it took them a quarter of an hour to order a Big Mac.”
“If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.”

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