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“Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.”
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“When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if he had to buy time, I wanted him to bounce in place. And then I only wanted him scrambling as a last resort. When you bounce, you maintain your balance. When you start moving, you create an unnatural position for yourself. I want everything to be natural.”
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“I'm not a foodie; I'm an eatie. I don't have anything against foodies. I just don't have the time or the interest to do that much research.”
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“As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.”
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“The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.”
Source : Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.
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“The eyes are the amulets of the mind.”
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“A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.”
Source : Paul Celan (1972). “Selected poems”, Penguin Books Ltd
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“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”
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“As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.”
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“Pasteur himself was absolutely fearless. Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with the glass tube held between his lips draw a few drops of the deadly saliva from the mouth of a rabid bull-dog, held on the table by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves.”
Source : Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”