"People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,"

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Source : "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.

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“The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.”

Source : Interview with Joanna Rose, www.nobelprize.org. December 09, 2003.
“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
“To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.”
“Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artistâ€™s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed”

Source : Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.85, Vintage
“We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.”

Source : "On Gun Control, Jerry Nadler Explains What Congress Could Do Right Now" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.
“The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.”
“Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.”
“I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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