"This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world."

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Source : Letter to Cobden on December 30, 1853. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 230, 1913.

John Bright

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.”
“I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.”

Source : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.
“The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.”
“The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.”
“Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?”
“I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.”
“I can't imagine a life without thinking, doing art. I don't feel any need to be a world traveler or an adventurer. I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. I think somehow I know that I should have a larger vision of art, but I can't think of what that would be.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 09, 2013.
“An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.”

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