"Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard."

-- Raymond Chandler

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”
“Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.”
“ECW's legacy will be as the company who took all the mistfits that nobody else wanted, and created stars.”
“While the ACA's insurance expansions and reforms represent a great leap forward for the U.S., it is also true that when fully implemented by 2018, the U.S. will still have the most inefficient, wasteful, and unfair health insurance system of any advanced nation, even with the ACA reforms.”

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“I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.”

Source : "Gazza confesses" by Ian Ridley, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2001.
“Know yourself and you will win all battles.”
“There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.”
“I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my own experience, to be homophobic. ... But I do think the straight folks will continue to play the straight roles.”

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