"Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky, but nothing they did was really illegal."

-- Steven Spielberg

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“Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.”

Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.1991, Simon and Schuster
“Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.43
“Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'”
“I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.”
“I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.”
“Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.”
“If I heard it once, Iâ€™ve heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but donâ€™t make the wrong thing impossible'. Well.....you learn from making mistakes. Itâ€™s that simple.”
“Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.”

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