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“Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture.”
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“Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.”
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“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”
Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). “Tales of Grimm and Andersen”
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“Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing.”
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“To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.”
Source : Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
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“Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.”
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“Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.”
Source : Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
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“I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.”
Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com