"Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!"

-- Bartholomew Roberts

“I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.”
“Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.”
“You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.”
“Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.8, Hachette UK
“I fight to take a good photograph every single time.”
“Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Mark Morris, choreographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.
“Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.”
“I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.”

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