"What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially."

-- Ayn Rand

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“The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.”
“Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.”
“I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.”
“Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).”
“The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.”

Source : "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.
“Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?”
“I did Our Winning Season movie that Joe Roth produced, and Joe Ruben, who did Sleeping With The Enemy. He's a really cool director. That's where I met husband Dennis Quaid. Dennis and I met on location in Georgia, and I always thought that was a really great movie. That movie should be included, because it's a really terrific. It's a trite saying, but it's a real, great coming-of-age piece, and all the actors are wonderful.”
“My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.”

Source : Olusegun Obasanjo, Ad' Obe Obe (2004). “A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo”, Spectrum Books Ltd

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