"My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident."

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“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”

Source : "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.
“It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1948). “Cloth of the Tempest”
“I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.”
“I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”
“Don't talk to the people until you've listened to the people.”
“The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.”
“George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.”

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