"Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!"

-- Sally Ride

#Girl Quotes #Stars Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.”
“Compared with games, reality is disconnected.”

Source : Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.67, Penguin
“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot...”
“One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.”
“Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself.”
“I think everyone roots for the underdog.”

Source : "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
“I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!"”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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