"When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format."

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Source : "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots" by Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2012.

Mark Mothersbaugh

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“In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.”
“Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.”
“Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.”
“You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.”

Source : "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.
“Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.”
“To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't.”
“In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.”

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