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last updated: November 28, 2023

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas

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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
-- Victoria Wood

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
-- W. P. Kinsella

Source : W. P. Kinsella (2003). “The Iowa Baseball Confederacy”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I do hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit.
-- Roh Moo-hyun

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“What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes...”

Source : Jeremy Bentham (2012). “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.311, Courier Corporation
“A child who is happy on his pony's back has something which will be to him a glorious memory that the years cannot dim ...”
“I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.”
“Many Of Them Have Things -- What They Lack Is The Richness Of Spirit”
“All the little things add up. Whether they were positive or negative, eventually you either see the amazing result or the biggest let down.”
“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.”
“I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.”

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“I work in the human rights field and there are serious conflicts between certain interpretations of Islamic law and human rights. That's something which I don't make any bones about at all, it's something which I think is very important for everyone to address, including the Muslim community, and many Muslims are addressing that issue.”
“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
“Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.”