“People say it's hard at the top, but it's even harder at the bottom.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
E! True Hollywood Story: The Osbournes.
“It was a hard thing to contemplate, even harder to accept, the inevitable tide of technological progress, which even as it created careers for some, also destroyed careers for others.”
Source: Paradox Resolution (2012), Chapter 5 (pp. 34-35)
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