"When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't."

-- Jacques Pepin

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“Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.”
“Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.”
“Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.”
“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that theyâ€™d actually made some sort of choice.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.”

Source : "Rent Control, Myths & Realities: International Evidence of the Effects of Rent Control in Six Countries (The Rise, Fall and Revival of Swedish Rent Control)". Book edited by Milton Friedman,‎ Walter Block, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Basil Kalymon and‎ Edgar O. Olsen, 1981.
“Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If thereâ€™s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is whatâ€™s happened to our society. Weâ€™re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.”
“Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.”

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