"The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something."

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Source : Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster

Debbi Fields

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“My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.”

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“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.”
“It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House
“Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.”
“You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.”
“If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]”
“The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.”

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