"Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight."

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Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Christopher Paul Curtis

#Smart Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Enough Quotes

“You may be more prodigal of time than of money.”
“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

Source : "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.
“Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress”

Source : "Democrats close Senate to push war probe". www.cnn.com. November 1, 2005.
“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.”
“Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.”
“Even if you persuade me, you wonâ€™t persuade me.”
“Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.”
“I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded, too.”

Source : "'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

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