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“It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.”
Source : "Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com. 
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“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”
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“The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.”
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“I am not in favor of a traditional free market.”
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“I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.”
Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
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“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
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“A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.”
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“A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.”
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“By my count, the Deputy Prime Minister has sworn an oath of loyalty and service to Her Majesty no fewer than four times in the last two years, yet he has used his position as a minister of the Crown as a podium from which to rail against our history and our heritage. The minister says that instead of the monarchy he would prefer an entirely Canadian institution, but he fails to recognize that the monarchy is as Canadian as the House of Commons itself.”
Source : Elsie Wayne during House of Commons Debates, www.parl.gc.ca. October 8, 2002.
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“To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.”
