"An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people."

-- Conrad Black

#People Quotes #Policy Quotes #Underachieving Quotes

“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”
“Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.”
“In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!”
“There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.”
“Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.”
“The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.”
“I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.”
“Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.”

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