"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten."

-- George William Curtis

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“One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.”
“I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
“Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its wayâ€”the way of artâ€”for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusaâ€™s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same directionâ€”is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusaâ€™s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?”
“The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.”
“You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.”
“I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”

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