"There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them."

-- Paula Poundstone

“Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.”
“Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.”
“The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.”
“I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.”
“The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.”
“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”

Source : Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.75, Verso Books
“It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.”

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