"How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it."

-- Peter Gleick

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“I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.”

Source : "Wendy Davis aide: 2014 run possible" by Elizabeth Titus, www.politico.com. June 28, 2013.
“I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.”
“When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.”
“One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together! This was due partly to his engaging personality and distinguished appearance: he was one of those exceptional people who at once stand out in a crowd.”

Source : Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.2, Courier Corporation
“The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.”
“How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.”
“Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.”
“I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.”

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