"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is how I got a good job in journalism."

-- Dave Barry

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“I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.”
“Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.”
“There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.”
“One thing Jay z told me that always sticks with me, is that, the album is never how you viewed it to be.”
“Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.”
“I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Making decisions was the painful part for me, the part I agonized over. But once the decision was made, I simply followed throughâ€”usually with relief that the choice was made. Sometimes the relief was tainted by despair, like my decision to come to Forks. But it was still better than wrestling with the alternatives.”
“Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas...”

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