"I don't have to be smarter than anybody else.Â I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else."

-- Graham Hawkes

“Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.”
“Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.”
“I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.”
“The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.”
“My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.”
“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

Source : Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.
“Turkey are the independent people. We are our own nation in this world - a nation of writers, journalists, artists, moviemakers, and academics. We act together. If there is a problem, we act to correct it.”
“Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.”

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