"People all say that I've had a bad break, but today - today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth."

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Source : "Character: Lou Gehrig". "The Pride of the Yankees", July 15, 1942.

Gary Cooper

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“Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.”

Source : Speech, October 29, 1980.
“I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.”
“Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.”
“The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.”

Source : Source: www.middleeasteye.net
“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky's opening remarks as United States Poet Laureate, October 1991.
“In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.”
“You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.”
“I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.”

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