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-- Ian Ayres

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“The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.”

Source : Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.123, Crown Business
“Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.”
“...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.”
“Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.”
“You are not your past.”
“My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.”
“Donald Trump can have some advantage in negotiations. NAFTA is high on his agenda.But if he goes too far, I think the president of Mexico Enrique Pena and the Mexicans will decide they would just as soon get out of NAFTA, and we don't want that either. There may need to be some changes, but to re-imagine the entire world we have had an international order. It's not perfect, but for 70 years, it has kept Europe whole and free and safe, and we need to keep it in place.”
“But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are”

Source : "Sens. Reed, Cornyn Talk 'Ground Zero Mosque,' Immigration Reform and Afghanistan". "Fox News Sunday" With Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2010.

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