"The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics"

-- Clare Short

#Country Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Politics Quotes

“very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.”
“Every single person in the world has something good about them. You just have to look inside of yourself and focus on it.”
“I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.”
“I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.”
“FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free people have restrictions upon them, they cease to be freedoms and rights. Instead, the government becomes like a king, bestowing privileges upon the chosen few and servitude upon everyone else.”
“I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.”

Source : Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media
“Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.”
“'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.”

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