"You can have anything in life, but you can't have everything!"

-- Susan Jeffers

“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.”
“Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. Content to them is irrelevant: they are interested in form only.”
“Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”
“One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.”
“No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.”

Source : "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.
“My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.”
“We're not trying to change the world; just music.”
“By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.”

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