"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game."

-- Michael Jordan

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“I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.”
“As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.”
“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”

Source : "Fictional character: Klaatu". "The Day the Earth Stood Still", www.imdb.com. 1951.
“Some people wait for a miracle to start living their lives happily. Others, use that time and create the miracle themselves.”
“Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.”
“The end of all being is the glory of God.”
“Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.”

Source : "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.
“My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.”

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