"My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing."

-- David Ortiz

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“The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.”
“Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.”
“Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.”
“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.198, Random House Books for Young Readers
“It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.”
“Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.”

Source : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.
“I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.”

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