"My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'"

-- Michael Phelps

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“The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it”

Source : "Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Marilyn Monroe" by Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“I've been acting since 2002, around about there.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I mean, the piano, of course, but I think the piano should be taught in school just like mathematics, just like reading, writing and arithmetic. I'd say reading, writing, arithmetic and rhythm. But that should be a prerequisite, because then the quality of music in the world at least in the United States, would be much better, if everyone knew something about the piano and about music, they would know this is not good. Right now, there is so much music out that's not good, but no one knows the public doesn't know.”

Source : Interview with John Rogers, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 15, 2005.
“As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.”
“I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.”
“Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.”
“The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.”
“People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.”

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