"Nothing other than a battle lost is as melancholy as a battle won."
- Duke of Wellington

"Very early in my life it was too late."
- Marguerite Duras, The Lover

routine

"I start writing at about 10am and finish whenever the muses leave me - say 5pm. Then I soak in my heated pool."
- Quentin Tarantino

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out of the monastery

"The reality is being out there with people who push your buttons."
- Hedwig Bakker

"Reindeer fur is the warmest known to man."
- The Nature of Things

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"78% of NFL players, 60% of NBA players and a very large percentage of MLB players (4x that of the average U.S. citizen) file bankruptcy within five years of retirement." Source here.

environmentalism

"Even if we knew for sure that we were going to fail (which we don't), what could men of good conscience do but fight until the very end?"
- Jacques Cousteau

"Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a great battle in their own life."
- Gloria Vanderbilt

the man who drove him the hardest

"Set your goals so high that you can't achieve them in your lifetime."
- Ted Turner's father

"... people don't live or die, people just float."
- Bob Dylan

"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."
- Jeff Bezos

"Every dream is a wish."
- Sigmund Freud

"Death had to take him sleeping or he would have put up a fight."
- on Theodore Roosevelt

on "Do the Right Thing"

"It took me ten days to write the screenplay."
- Spike Lee

a place to eat in Detroit

Yelp review here.

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Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

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a place to eat and drink in Ottawa

hoochbourbon.ca

"It's not you that owns stuff; it's stuff that owns you."
- John McAfee

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
- Sting

"Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

a place for men to shop in London

www.buddshirts.co.uk

"I haven't been nervous since I was 14."
- Deepak Chopra

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on recreation

"I like to read music and listen to books on tape."
- Steven Wright