"So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated."

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John O'Hara

#Tchaikovsky Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Syphilis Quotes

“I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.”
“The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.”
“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.”

Source : James Bryant Conant (1942). “Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to College Students”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
“I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!”
“What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.”
“Holy War is a contradiction of terms...”
“Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.”
“When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.”

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