"If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there."

-- Annie Lennox

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“What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.”

Source : Peter Deunov (2010). “Love Is All Forgiving: Reflections on Love and Spirituality”, p.120, Health Communications, Inc.
“The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.”
“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”
“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”
“There's one thing you're better at than I am, and that's kissing Vince McMahon's ass. You're as good as kissing Vince's ***** as Hulk Hogan was. -To John Cena”
“Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?”
“What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.”
“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.”

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