"Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits."

-- Jim Harrison

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“Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.”
“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.”
“I'm very Canadian. I want everyone to love me, and I just get nervous.”
“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons
“My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.”

Source : "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.
“Whips and chains, handcuffs, smack a little body up with my belt. Scream, help play my game, dracula man, I'll get my fangs.”
“I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.”

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