"The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich."

-- Fran Tarkenton

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“My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.”

Source : "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.
“It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons
“In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.”
“I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.”
“I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.”
“SanitisedÂ violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.”
“When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin. -- Mr. Magorium”
“I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why canâ€™t people be happier together?”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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