"The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops."

-- Joseph Stilwell

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“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
“An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.”
“Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.”
“What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.”
“Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.”

Source : "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.
“I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.”
“..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.”

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