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“I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.”
Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009. 
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“The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.”
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“I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.”
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“Not believing in anything is also a religion .”
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“And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.”
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“About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.”
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“I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the head of it. There are so few pictures of him. We don't even really know what he looks like. For somebody with this outsized influence projecting murder abroad, you'd think that we would know a lot more by now. And then the role of the hostages.”
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“The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn't find a way to do it.”
Source : David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.25, A&C Black
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“Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.”
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“Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.”
Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.397, Open Road Media
