"People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently."

-- Leon Golub

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Winning one league title at Roma to me is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.”
“Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.”
“I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.”
“The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?”
“Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.”
“What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.”
“Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.”

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