"My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off."

-- Milton Jones

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“I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.”
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
“I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

Source : "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.
“Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.”
“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”
“It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.”

Source : "Straw 'very sorry' over shooting", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2005.
“This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.”

Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

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