"If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon."

-- Doug Rader

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“While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”
“I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?”
“The free software community should be supported more widely. Iâ€™m totally in solidarity with what they do.”

Source : "Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible" by Andy Greenberg, www.wired.com. October 15, 2014.
“My familyâ€™s said to me from the beginning, â€˜People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, thatâ€™s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and weâ€™re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and thatâ€™s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.”
“When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.”

Source : Jet Magazine, January 8, 1990.
“Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.”
“The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.”

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