"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."

-- Cal Thomas

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.”
“In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).”
“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”
“Anything goes on any given Sunday, especially Monday Night.”
“To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.366, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.”
“Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.”
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.”

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