"I know how deeply slothful I am."

-- Joseph Epstein

“I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.”
“This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”
“To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.”
“We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.”

Source : Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.
“I'd love to do some theater.”
“The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.”
“You learn to accept your own reality”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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