"I'm just made differently. Man, I just love being an American, I love my country. But it happened to me during the Nixon time, especially pre-Watergate, that as I watched Nixon for the first time in my life I felt shame. I had to analyze myself. What is this emotion? I realized that my government was separate from my country. It was the first time I ever felt ashamed of the government, not the country."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

John Fogerty

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“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

Source : Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”
“Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.”
“My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes.”
“I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.”
“Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.”

Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик
“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”
“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.”

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