"I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do."

-- Russ Rose

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“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.”
“The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.”
“If we build the people, they'll build the business”
“Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with-forever and ever, for better or worse-they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.”

Source : "Vanessa Lachey: 'I Love The Woman That I've Become With Nick'". Interview with Gerri Miller, www.yourtango.com. October 3, 2013.
“History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.”
“Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace,”
“How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
“No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.”

Source : "To the brink and back" by Suzie MacKenzie, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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