"I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Running Quotes #President Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.”
“When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.”
“Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.”

Source : "Altruistic groups, selfish people win". Interview with Zinta Lundborg, www.postandcourier.com. May 5, 2012.
“Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.”
“You forget your victories, but you remember the losses.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.58, Penguin
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.”
“I am not the fastest but I am always as fast as I need to be.”
“There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that.”

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