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Louis-Sebastien Mercier

"The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly....The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life....Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were."

-- Louis-Sebastien Mercier

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“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”
“My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.”

Source : Epigrams, I, 4, c. 80 - 104 AD.
“She would thump them both, and she would apologize to neither.”
“Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.”
“I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"”
“I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.”

Source : Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.
“For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.”

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