"McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“Do anything you wanna doâ€”but from [the heart]. Music is a thing from the heart, from the soul, just like anything else you do, man. And you can be the best, you can be what you wanna be. Thatâ€™s right! You can do what you wanna do. I believeâ€”Iâ€™m a blues player. I never been a millionaire, but let me tell you somethingâ€”I think I am. Cause I got this. Iâ€™ve got what it take. And I donâ€™t care if you donâ€™t believe me, man, but I know you do. Because this is what itâ€™s all about. Anything you do, if you wanna do it and you love it, you rich. You a millionaire, man.”
“Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.”

Source : "Directing is the easy part". Interview with John Horn, articles.latimes.com. January 23, 2011.
“Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.”

Source : Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press
“Does it matter whether you hate yourself? At least love your eyes that can see, your mind that can hear the music, the thunder of the wings.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, “Love The Wild Swan”
“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.”
“Do you ever feel like 'nothing' has happened to you? Like you know you have a destiny, but all you've seen of life so far is unexceptional? I want my life to be different. I want to feel that it's begun. I'm waiting for 'that' kiss.”
“I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.”
“If we don't figure out global warming, we're not going to be able to be here.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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