"I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it."

-- Daley Thompson

“The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.”
“Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.”

Source : "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.
“In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.”
“I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.”
“Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.”
“The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.”
“May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.”
“Some people say homosexuality is a sin. Itâ€™s not. God is perfectly cool with it, God feels the exact same way about homosexuality that God feels about heterosexuality. Now you might say, â€˜Whoa, slow down. You move too fast. How could you have the audacity, the temerity, to speak on behalf of God?â€™ Exactly, thatâ€™s an excellent point and I pray that you remember it.”

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