"I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin."

-- Dennis Quaid

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“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.”
“In a weird way, itâ€™s kind of a relief to think, â€˜Oh, I know Iâ€™m not that young sort of pretty thing anymore.â€™ Itâ€™s quite nice talking about what it was like to be the young pretty thing, rather than being it.”
“Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.”

Source : W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation
“I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.”
“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”

Source : John Boyne (2016). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.329, Random House
“People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.”
“Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.”

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