"Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner."

-- Steven Levenkron

“My courses do not intimidate. Instead, they encourage the player to play well and become more open to the enjoyable aspects of the game.”
“As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.”
“You sick, twisted monster," Sabrina seethed at Pinocchio.”
“Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.”
“I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.”
“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”
“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”

Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press
“I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.”

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