"I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything that came before it led up to it, and everything of importance to this country - at least up to 1940 - was a consequence of it. Even now there's an echo of the war, however faint, in almost everyone's life."

-- Ken Burns

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
“Love is more than blind. Itâ€™s brain-dead.”
“Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.”
“I used to want to be tall, and then I thought, 'If I were tall, then people would say I was pretty and not cute.' And then I realized that there are worse things than being called cute.”

Source : Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co
“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.”
“Only bad writers think that their work is really good.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
“I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif”

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