"You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either."

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Source : "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

Martti Ahtisaari

#Nice Quotes #Party Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Nourishment is not just â€œnutrition.â€ Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the table, the love and inspiration in the cooking, and the joy of the entire eating experience.”
“I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly because I cannot avoid the war. It's something in my soul, in my blood.”
“The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.”

Source : "Preview: Ken Livingstone: 'The world is run by monsters'". Interview with Jemima Khan, www.newstatesman.com. February 8, 2012.
“I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.”
“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.”
“I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.”
“Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.”

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