"I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire."

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Marianne Faithfull

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Empires Quotes

“Challenges are inevitable, Defeat is optional.”

Source : Roger Crawford (1999). “How High Can You Bounce?: Turn Setbacks Into Comebacks”, Bantam
“Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life...!”

Source : Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.58, Partridge Publishing
“It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.”
“My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”
“...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs dictate exactly what you're going to do. You've taken your hands off the steering wheel, and you're going wherever the drug world takes you.' That had never changed. The feeling would well up inside of me, and no matter how much I loved my girl or my band or my friends or my family, when that siren song 'Go get high now' started playing in my head, I was off.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?”
“Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth,”
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

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