The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.

- Emily Dickinson

"The creative process will not bring you confidence because you're constantly jumping into the unknown."
- Marion Cotillard

Q. Are you really drunk when you go out onstage?

A. Yeah. I'm not going out there alone.

"It's very hard to not like someone who says they like you."
- Katherine Graham

"90% of your happiness is based on how you process the world; only 10% of your happiness is predicted by the external world."
- Positive Psychology

19th century caesar

"Napoleon was a speed eater preferring macaroni and boiled meat."

"Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how to build a clock."
- David Geffen on a colleague

"That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

- Dr. Samuel Johnson

"My pain is your entertainment."
- Jay Z

weed

Why does pot make some people psychotic? Explanation here.

Geronimo

"He could walk without making footprints."

"Some 2500 have summited Everest; 500 have died trying."
- Everest: A Climb for Peace

rare car

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"If you're going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill

"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard."
- Bill Gates

For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan 

"It's fine to celebrate success, but it's more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"Actors lie for a living; you just need to be a good liar."
- Marlon Brando

billion dollar hippy

Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy • ©2011 BBC by 1tommypeters1

"The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope."
- Winston Churchill 

A place to eat and drink in Philadelphia

http://www.citytavern.com

Where Adams met Jefferson, and where beer is based upon Washington's recipe.

turning point

When outside art became respectable.

a 1000 foot tower

perspective

"The number of molecules in a teaspoon of water equals the number of teaspoons of water in the oceans."
- Nobel Laureate Harvard Professor Dudley R. Herschbach

"I only do drugs so I can drink more."
- Dennis Hopper

Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the UK in World War II included a shot of whiskey and a six hour nap.

"In Tudor England, the aristocrats were there to reproduce, whilst the servants were there to run the household."
- Lucy Worsley

"I see no difference between a healthy active 95 year old brain compared with a healthy active 35 year old brain. It's a myth that we lose however many brain cells a day. It's not true."
- Dr. Peter Davis, Neuroscientist & Pathologist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

43% of all print books published in the US in 2011 were self-published. (A total of
almost 150,000.)

- Source here.