"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."

-- Barack Obama

“Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.”
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

Source : Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions
“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”
“Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about othersâ€™ success”
“Overcoming the difficulties of an ultramarathon reminds me that I can overcome the difficulties of life”
“For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.”
“English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.”
“No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.”

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