"I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card."

-- Billy Porter

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“Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“While we can generalize when describing a given medium as hot or cool, all media can be said to possess both hot and cool aspects to varying degrees, and part of what I try to do with comics is figure out when and how the temperature needs raising or lowering.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“SHINee are 'transformers' because we are constantly changing!”
“I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.”
“The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.”
“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.”
“... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.20, ETT Imprint

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