"I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally."

-- Allen Stanford

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“Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.”
“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”
“I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.”
“i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Recently, I can't seem to take a straight photograph without thinking that what I am photographing won't be the final image - like the world in front of me is not good enough or something.”

Source : "'A lot of art people hate Photoshop... bollocks to that'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2007.
“aloof, adj. It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: â€œWhat are you thinking?â€ It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.”
“Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.”
“Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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