"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."

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George Eliot

#Rome Quotes #World Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The key to success is having some discipline, .. You don't have to be rocket scientist.”
“I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.”

Source : "Can Whitney Cummings Get Some Respect?" by Vanessa Grigoriadis, www.vulture.com. November 18, 2012.
“It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.”
“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”
“This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.”
“Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.”
“Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'”
“Know why people run marathons? â€¦Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human â€” which means its a superpower all humans posses.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.239, Profile Books

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