"The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans."

-- Drew Brees

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“Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.”
“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they're trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that's beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they've spent years just hanging out with adults and they don't even have a sense of what it's like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Source : "Soul Man: Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones". Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2011.
“There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"”
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“In five years, you're going to be blown away by the strength and diversity of Michigan's transformed economy.”

Source : Jennifer Granholm, Daniel Granholm Mulhern (2011). “A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future”, p.74, PublicAffairs
“I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.”
“Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.”

Source : Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, Youcanprint
“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

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