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John Lindsay

"We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong."

Source : The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.

John Lindsay

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“Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.”
“We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.”
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown
“When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.”
“I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.”
“I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.”
“I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.”
“Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the â€œcojonesâ€ to carry our argument to the people.”

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