"Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous."

-- Alexander Pushkin

#Sacrifice Quotes #Winning Quotes #Play Quotes

“I was always a self-conscious person.”
“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.”
“Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.”

Source : Nicole Williams (2012). “Crash”, p.179, Simon and Schuster
“Donald Trump hates the Common Core, created by governors and state education commissioners, and initially adopted by 45 states. [Betsy] DeVos has actually supported the Common Core until now.”

Source : "Donald Trump Picks A Republican Activist As Education Secretary". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 24, 2016.
“Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.”
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”
“Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.”

Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.291, Bantam
“When you do 10 interviews in one day, and 10 different sources want to talk to you, that means you're doing good. I think about that every day.”

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