Quotes
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Peter Cosgrove

"But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn."

-- Peter Cosgrove

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“[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it was, like, a great idea. And even if it didn't get any vengeance, it would still turn out okay with me because, you know, I would be sort of immortalized.”
“Some people here think they donâ€™t have to breastfeed, and I think, â€˜Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?â€™ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
“I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.”
“What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?”
“The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.”
“Reading won't have the confidence to be confident”
“If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room”

Source : "Larry Ellison, Lorne Michaels, and other 'superbosses' use 3 unusual traits to identify top-performing employees" by Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2016.
“I wear black while suckers wear pink.”

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