"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."

-- Douglas Coupland

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“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.
“If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.”
“Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.”
“A young nurse, someone new whom he didn't recognise, came up to Henry and patted him on the arm. "Are you a friend or a family member?" She whispered the question in his ear, trying not to disturb Sheldon. The question hung there like a beautiful chord, ringing in the air. Henry was Chinese, Sheldon obviously wasn't. They looked nothing alike. Nothing at all. "I'm distant family," Henry said.”
“I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free.”
“No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.”
“Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.”
“When I'm asked how to succeed in show business, I always say I haven't the foggiest”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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