"As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism."

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Source : Cofer Black during September 11 Commission Hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2004.

Cofer Black

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“To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It seems to me that the best work I've done - and maybe this is something other people can identify with - was because it was an end in itself. It was something other than making ends meet, it was an escape from all that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.”
“The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience.”

Source : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Now every model wants to be an actress”
“Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press
“I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when I started doing this, I said, "I'm never gonna do anything to corrupt this. Never try to "sell it." Never gonna do anything to make this a job." I can go five months without writing a song. Then something will happen and I'll write six songs in a week.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.”

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