"People like scandals."

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Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.

Blanka Vlasic

#People Quotes #Scandal Quotes

“How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.”
“I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile”
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

Source : "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
“One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.”
“It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.”

Source : Maureen Daly (2010). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014
“The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”
“We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.”

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