"As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”
“People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.”
“Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.”

Source : "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2008.
“As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.”

Source : "Interview: Armin Van Buuren". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.”
“I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.”
“The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.”
“That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.”

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