"You replaced me with a shaved poodle?â€ â€œHeâ€™s got mad skills.â€ Derekâ€™s eyebrows crept up. â€œHe can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesnâ€™t make fun of my car."

-- Ilona Andrews

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“I'm with the president nearly every day. We engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world. I deliver to him this exquisite product that's been developed by my officers. He engages in a way that shows his understanding of the complexity. He asks really hard questions. He delivers policy outcomes based on the information that we provide him. My observation of the president is that, we deal in serious matters.”
“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”
“Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.”
“You just can't be scared to do things that you think are mistakes.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.
“Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23
“Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it”
“Seven years I worked at the Polish deli. It's a very slow deli. So I sat around a lot on my stool at the cashier. And I'd sign my autograph on all the bags I'd put the milk in. Just everyday, practice my autograph. And the manager of the store would take some of them and tape them against the wall. And he'd say, "Some day, I'm telling you, it will be worth something." And I'm like 13, going, "Really?!" And when I go back there, he still has them on the wall. It's very cute.”
“Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?”

Source : Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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