"The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value."

-- Stanley Crouch

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“People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.”
“I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.”
“There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.”

Source : Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.
“Don't make excuses, make good.”
“Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Saviorâ€™s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes Godâ€™s agents â€“ exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.228, WaterBrook
“I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.”
“You may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing. I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.”
“Your soulmate can also be your downfall.Â ”

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