"I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn't worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I'm really running the show."

-- Scott Raab

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“When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.”
“There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.”
“I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.”
“There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.”

Source : Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.267, Vintage
“All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.88, Transaction Publishers
“You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have canâ€™t ever go away. Itâ€™s what other people only dream about. Youâ€™re an artist.”
“Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.”
“Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.”

Source : "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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