"There's something exhilarating about telling stories that haven't been shared before and haven't been told publicly before. The last thing I want to be doing is telling stories other people have already told. That's not to say that there isn't important work out there about people in positions of power, but I know my strength. Even when I was at the Wall Street Journal 10 years ago, this is what I wrote about."

-- Alex Kotlowitz

#Wall Quotes #People Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.”
“I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.”

Source : "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.
“If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.”
“The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.”
“The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.”
“My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.”

Source : "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.
“Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”
“Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know weâ€™re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldnâ€™t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasnâ€™t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasnâ€™t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.”

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