"A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by."

-- David Brooks

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“In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?”

Source : "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”
“One of my fun road trips was [when] a group of guys and I rented a tour bus and we started in Orlando and drove all the way around the country going to baseball games. That was an awesome trip because each night we would go to a new baseball stadium, watch a baseball game, get in the bus, wake up [in] the next city, go to another baseball game. We did this for a little while and it was great. We called that trip the Rats on the Bus and it was a fun trip.”
“Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.”

Source : "Make Combating Child Marriage a U.S. Foreign Policy Priority" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2012.
“For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way.”
“I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.”
“And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.”

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