"I'd like to die with my boots on."

--

Daniel Berrigan

“Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.”

Source : "Ryan Cabrera is more than Ashlee's ex". Interview, www.today.com. November 9, 2004.
“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.”
“When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes started at the time that I said they would.”
“Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

Source : Speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles, October 05, 1877.
“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

Source : Michel Houellebecq (2003). “Platform: A Novel”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
“I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn.”

Source : "Comic-Con ’12: Quentin Tarantino Wows Hall H Faithful With Bombastic Footage From 'Django Unchained' & More From The Presentation" by Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. July 15, 2012.
“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster
“I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.”

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