"To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money."

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Source : Spalding Gray (2011). “The Journals of Spalding Gray”, p.64, Vintage

Spalding Gray

“Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn fifty.”
“After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.”
“I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.”
“I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.”
“There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.”
“I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.”
“In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.”

Source : "Sri Mulyani Indrawati: 'You must make growth inclusive - you have to protect the poor'". Interview With Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2012.
“Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.”

Source : "The Time Is Now for Military Justice for Assault Victims" by Terry O’Neill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2014.

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