"We are never content with our lot."

-- Jean de La Fontaine

“I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.”

Source : "CNN's Amanpour", www.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.
“I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things Ive had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.”
“This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.”
“I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.”
“What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.”
“As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”
“When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.”
“Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.”

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