"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

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Source : "Whip Smart: A Memoir". Book by Melissa Febos, therumpus.net. 2010.

Abraham Lincoln

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“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”
“That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.”
“My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime”
“It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.”

Source : "Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir review - Alan Cumming recalls pain without self-pity" by Damian Barr, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2014.
“My mom was a sub teacher her whole life. My aunt was a teacher her whole life. So that wasn't hard to do. Performing in front of people started when I was a child. My mom ran a theatre. So we were around it. Getting up in front of people has never been an issue. So I think once you get over that part of it, I'm happy to teach anybody anything.”
“I'm not interested in leaving it open-ended. That would just cause me frustration. I wouldn't be satisfied. What's really cool about Fringe, and one of the things we did do right, was that the way we chose to tell the story was that, with every season, there was a closure and then a new chapter. That allowed us to actually make the closure.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.”

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