"There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue."

-- Henry Louis Gates

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“Hereâ€™s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Letâ€™s say you own a Procter & Gamble in your portfolio and the stock price goes down by half. Do you like it better? If it falls in half, do you reinvest dividends? Do you take cash out of savings to buy more? If you have the confidence to do that, then youâ€™re an investor. If you donâ€™t, youâ€™re not an investor, youâ€™re a speculator, and you shouldnâ€™t be in the stock market in the first place.”
“To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.”
“Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.”
“Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.
“I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.”
“Boxing is the sweet science. So if you want to begin in the grass roots of boxing where women are on the same level as guys, you are talking hundreds of years. Men have been boxing everyday all day for a hundred years. So it will take some time. You will need to bring more young girls into the gym starting at 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And it would have to be 100,000 of them.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.”
“Love only serves and does not calculate.”

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