"My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him."

-- Loretta Lynn

#Birthday Quotes #Hero Quotes #April Quotes

“Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.”
“When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.”
“The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and still be inside the law. The same thing goes for rules, policies and procedures - you know, the organization's "internal laws." You can "go by the book" and still behave unethically. Still not move beyond mediocrity. High standards-the ethics of excellence-come to life through your basic values, your character, integrity and honesty. Obeying the law is the bare minimum.”
“Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart...”
“Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.”
“Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”
“I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.”

Source : "The way we live now. Questions for Frank Gehry; Towering Vision". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. January 5, 2003.
“...the collapse of tsarism, while not improbably, was certainly not inevitable.”

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