"It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table."

-- Dervla Murphy

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“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”
“Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.”
“If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.”

Source : "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.
“But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.”
“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.”

Source : "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos : A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.
“Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.”

Source : "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.
“Balls in general are not a good looking item.”
“There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.”

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