"NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient."

-- Ambrose Bierce

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“Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.”
“The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors that human beings have different values depending on their income status. For example, in New Jersey, the Medicaid program pays a pediatrician $30 to see a poor child on Medicaid. But the same legislators, through their commercial insurance, pay the same pediatrician $100 to $120 to see their child. How do physicians react to it? If you phone around practices in Princeton, Plainsboro, Hamilton - none of them would see Medicaid kids.”
“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.”
“I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.”
“A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]”
“A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.”
“The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am going to write something about the religious right. I started out by writing something about sexual addiction, and it evolved. . . . I don't look at a calendar and say, Oh! There's going to be an election in 1996. I think now, in 1993, I'll start writing a play that will be ready for it.”

Source : "Of Plays About Politics And Politicians at Play". Interview with Wendy Wasserstein, www.nytimes.com. October 6, 1996.
“I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.”

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