"There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character."

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E. L. Konigsburg

#School Quotes #Character Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I drank that sentence and began to glow.”

Source : Gary Soto (2012). “Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.”
“It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.”
“I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.”
“Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.”
“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.”
“What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!”
“We are not going into government with Sinn Fein”

Source : "In quotes: Paisley and Adams", www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2007.

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