"All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas."

-- Dionne Warwick

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“This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!”
“Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.”
“My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.”
“Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
“Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.”
“All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.”
“I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.28, Penguin
“I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.”

Source : "Mourning the celebrities who died in 2016 and celebrating the legacy they left behind" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. December 10, 2016.

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