"I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight."

-- Alberto Tomba

#Mother Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Blood Quotes

“If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.”
“Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.”
“Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.”

Source : Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.
“Enjoy your life, fashion is not that important.”
“To be sure, [NASCAR] stars were initially ex-bootleggers for the most part drawn from that talent pool in the Carolinas hills: "good ol' boys" as they referred to themselves. That's exactly how they would be described in the press that slowly became enamored with their raucous life style. That has all changed, with the drivers of today polished and clean-cut athletes who are expected to behave like commercial puppets in public.”
“Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”
“Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.”
“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.”

Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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