“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it’s their fault”. Henry Kissinger
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse”. Jawaharlal Nehru
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it”. Bob Hope
“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant”. Charles DeGaulle
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for”. Dag Hammerskjold
“The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you”. Nancy Astor
“The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting”. Fran Lebowitz
“Three o’ clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do”. Jean Paul Sartre
“The meek shall inherit the earth but not it’s mineral rights”. John Paul Getty
“I hate being late. Those who are late are punished”. Mahatma Gandhi
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. Eleanor Roosevelt
“Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last we make irrevocable decisions”. Marcel Proust
“You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea”. Myrlie Evers
“To be Black in America is to be in a constant state of rage”. James Baldwin
“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating and in fourteen days I lost two weeks”. Joe E Lewis
News is what somebody somewhere doesn’t want you to know. The rest is advertising”. Unknown
“That’s not a lie. It’s a terminological inexactitude”. Alexander Haig
”Don’t believe everything you think” bumper sticker
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Not My Sentiments...Exactly.
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Fran Lebowitz,
James Baldwin,
Jean Paul Sartre,
Marcel Proust,
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