"Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent."

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Christopher Marlowe

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“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.”
“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.”
“Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2006). “Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom”, p.18, The New Press
“I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.”
“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80's movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.”
“When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.”

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