"I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser."

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Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

Paula Broadwell

#Dream Quotes #Stars Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.”
“[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.”
“Six patients with advanced cancer were treated with amygdalin at dosages similar to those employed by Laetrile practitioners....intravenously... (and) orally...No clinical or lab evidence of toxic reaction was seen (by us).”
“Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is nowâ€”right nowâ€”later than it has ever been.”
“For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.”
“If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.”
“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source : Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151
“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.”

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