"Been working and working But I still got so terribly far to go."

-- Oscar Brown Jr.

“Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.”
“If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and itsÂ inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within.Â Falling Out of TimeÂ is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to beÂ underestimated.”

Source : "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.”
“Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of. People like that share a willingness to be scared and to take chances.”

Source : Carmen Ejogo ‘Sparkle’ Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.
“With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'”
“I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.”
“As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.”
“I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.”

Source : William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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