"I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a clichÃ©, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular."

-- Nick Cave

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“I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.”
“My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.”
“There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.”
“A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”
“Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.”
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin
“I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.”
“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”

Source : "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

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