"I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland."

-- Bobby Hackett

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“I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.”
“Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.”
“There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.”
“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

Source : David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”
“It was my pork chop. But that's ok. I ate his dog food.”
“I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.”
“I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through”
“The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.”

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