"America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore."

-- Nick Clooney

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“Be governed by your calling, not your circumstance.”
“I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.”

Source : Pam Houston (1993). “Cowboys are My Weakness: Stories”
“You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.”
“I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.”

Source : In Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) ch. 17
“I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.”
“It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.”
“For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.”
“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.”

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