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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.

My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to.

Almost everybody needs ideas to live by including hope and faith in order to tolerate the hardships of existence.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it’s a vortex that can’t and won’t be stopped.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

Koliko god djelovalo nepravedno što ne znamo da smo sretni kada to jesmo, i nismo u stanju uvidjeti iz čega ona doista izvire (barem ne tako dugo dok posve ne nestane), lažna sigurnost koju osjećamo dok smo još zarobljeni tragičnom nesvjesnošću, donekle pomaže našoj sreći, kako bi jednom bio sporiji naš pad.

No one at Goldman Sachs gets paid out of his or her own P&L. It matters how your business is doing, but it matters more how the firm as a whole is doing.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave.

Life is not only the dance and the dancer but also the song.

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Bye weeks are nerve‑wracking.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

My wife has great taste in everything but men. The vast majority of the songs on my debut album, 'Traveller,' came from lists she made.