"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends."

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Source : "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

Boris Yeltsin

#Friends Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.”

Source : Pat Williams, Peggy Matthews Rose, Phil Jackson (2007). “Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books”, p.38, Health Communications, Inc.
“To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.”
“There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.”
“The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.”
“Nothing else exists when art does.”
“I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed society. In that sense, we are outliers. Are we suckers? Yes, but it's not just that. That puts too fine a point on what I am saying. We're not idiots and victims. It's about us as a people, compared with, say, Canadians, believing whatever we believe because, well, we're Americans, we feel this way without regard for what scholars and scientists say.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.”

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