"There is nothing good in love but the physical part."

-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.”
“One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.”
“If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.”

Source : "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.
“I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.”
“Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.”
“I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.”
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
“My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.

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