"Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges."

-- Barack Obama

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“Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.”
“All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”
“A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.403
“It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.”
“Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.”
“The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.”

Source : "In-laws and Outlaws". Book by C. Northcote Parkinson, 1962.
“The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.”

Source : Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1989). “Hobokenfish: And, Chicagowhistle”

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