"The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur."

-- Colum McCann

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“Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.”
“Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham". Interview with Laura Cohn, www.bloomberg.com. April 9, 2001.
“I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those thingsâ€”this is beautiful. This will always be beautifulâ€”and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet itâ€™s not.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. February 2009.
“Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.”

Source : Press conference, www.boston.com. June 12, 2008.
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity”

Source : Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, May 15, 2006.
“The only way to win a race is to run alone.”
“The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!”
“I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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