"If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all."

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Stephen Sondheim

“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation”
“You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.”
“I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.”
“We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin
“No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.”
“A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.”
“Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.”
“Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.”

Source : Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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