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routine

"I write 6 hours a day, 7 days a week."
- Adam Gopnik [Born 1956]

longest lived

During Jimmy Carter's [born 1924] administration, no bullets were fired which is the only time in US history that happened.

on pharmacists

 "You're some kind of doctor, but also a cashier."

one of the greatest cellists of all time

 Interviewer:

At 90, why do you continue to practice 3 hours per day?

Pablo Casals [1876-1973]:

Because I'm beginning to notice improvement.

logician

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

– Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

solidarity

“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.”

– Lech Walesa [born 1943]

undercover

"The sidewalk is my pillow."
- Adam West [1928-2017] as Ty Lookwell

Will the science of electricity prove to be useful?

 

"What use is a new born baby?"
- Benjamin Franklin [1706 - 1790]

​“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.”

"You have the right to get better."
- Kevin Costner [born 1955] on early fails and evolving into multiple Oscar winner

family businesses

 

routine

"I typically write 50 drafts of every book."
- Richard Norton Smith [born 1953]

"Are my thoughts useful?"

... if not, blow them out like the candles on a birthday cake.
- Sanskrit [c.1500BCE]

barracking

 "If those mountains don't feel the need to move, why should I?"

no smearing

In the 18th century, kissing on necks instead of lips and cheeks prevented splotching.

The secret of Ben Franklin's success

 

"Inactivity."

patron

"A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who administered to Lorenzo, a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help."
- Agony and Ecstasy

Gemütlichkeit

Fräulein:

Mr. Williams, why do you think there's not much comedy in Germany?

Robin Williams:

Did you ever think it's because you killed all the funny people?

Zukerberg's Meta

 

"Get them early as children are loyal brand buyers."
- Aldous Huxley [1958]

life is tedious

Vladimir:

That passed the time.

Estragon:

It would have passed in any case.

Vladimir:

Yes, but not so rapidly.

Samuel Beckett [1906-1989], Waiting for Godot [1953] which is recognized as the most important English language play of the 20th Century.

nevertheless an optimist

 

"[When auditioning] assume you're not getting the part. It'll free you to make bigger, bolder choices."
- Robert De Niro [born 1943]

"whimsical diabolical horror"

 

Hieronymus Bosch [1450-1516], The Garden of Earthly Delights, in the Museum de Prado

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

 

a rather lonely and miserable existence

“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”

– William Makepeace Thackeray [1811-1863]

"silence is so accurate"

 

inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture

Pablo Picasso's [1881-1973] collaboration with Georges Braque [1882-1963] where paintings became not representations of things but things in themselves ended by the latter's head wound sustained as a WWI reservist - the Spaniard said he never saw his French friend again.

when does the soul enter the body?

 

on Centrism

"The middle is where both sides shoot at you."
- Margaret Atwood [born 1939]

anxiety therapy

"If you're not wasted, the day is."
- Bill Maher [born 1956]

armoire

"My clothes are gay. They came out of the closet this morning."
- Tig Notaro [born 1971]

legal cocaine