"Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.”
“A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!”
“Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.391, Macmillan
“You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes lifted, meeting Chauncey's. "Half fallen angel." Chauncey's tutor's voice drifted up from the recesses of his mind, reading passages from the Bible, telling of a deviant race created when angels cast from heaven mated with mortal women. A fearsome and powerful race. A chill that wasn't entirely revulsion crept through Chauncey. "Who are you?”
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
“Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.”

Source : "Baseball lists: funny lines, great nicknames" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 2016.
“Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.”
“No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.”

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