"It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is."

-- Josh Groban

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“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
“Church should be enjoyed, not endured.”
“I am having a very difficult time. Things happen unexpectedly.”

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire". Book by John Toland, p.49, 2003.
“Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, BolaÃ±o has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope.”
“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
“The mind has to be empty to see clearly.”
“Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.”
“People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.”

Source : "Interview: Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Bettie Page)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. April 14, 2006.

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