"Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience."

-- Patricia Neal

“My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.”
“The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.”

Source : AsianWeek, February 7-13, 2003.
“A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.537
“We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.”

Source : "Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism".
“I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.”
“For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.”
“I was actually really happy with where my game was at. That's probably the most disappointing aspect.”
“Sometimes an organization doesnâ€™t need a solution; it just needs clarity.”

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