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Ryszard Kapuscinski quote: "Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

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I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. Ron Perlman
Aldous Huxley quote: "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does..."
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that this mysterious composition which we call society, is nothing absolutely good or bad in itself, but has a spirit in it, volatile but potent, which either makes you drunk when you think it, as Orlando thought it, delightful, or gives you a headache when you think it, as Orlando thought it, repulsive. That the faculty of speech has much to do with it either way, we take leave to... Virginia Woolf
I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in things because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetative. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years. But there are much worse games to play. Suzanne Collins
Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab. Charlie Sheen
And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic. Peter Garrett
She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. Bram Stoker
Jay London quote: "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the..."
I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights. Jay London
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. Sharon Tate
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. Charles Krauthammer
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups. Erika Slezak
Bernhard Langer quote: "You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes,..."
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends. Bernhard Langer
David Lynch quote: "I like things to be orderly."
I like things to be orderly. David Lynch
Dorothy Day quote: "Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. Dorothy Day