"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."

-- Robert Moses

#Idols Quotes #Musical Quotes #Administration Quotes

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source : Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
“Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.”
“I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.”
“We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.”

Source : robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”
“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”
“Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.”
“Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.”

Source : "Dispatches from the front". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2003.
“The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.”

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