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“I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.”
Source : "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.
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“I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.”
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“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”
Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books
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“Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.”
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“God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth”
Source : Jacques Maritain, Jean Cocteau (2014). “Art and Faith: Letters between Jacques Maritain and Jean Cocteau”, p.47, Open Road Media
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“Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.”
Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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“I'm interested in the way each piece comes together to work as one bigger thing. But The whole point was for people to have fun with it and not be taking it too seriously. I think a lot of people succeeded in that.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]”