"It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replaced by a different, more complex, person. You watch him revolve in this new company, revealing new facets, and there is nothing you can do but hope you like these other sides as much as you like the side that seemed whole when it faced only you."

-- Peter Cameron

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“Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.”
“I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.”

Source : "Q&A: Elizabeth Banks Is Every Woman You Know". Interview with Stephen Garrett, www.esquire.com. August 23, 2011.
“I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.”
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
“An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.”

Source : Naomi Judd (2005). “Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”

Source : John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23

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