"When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win."

-- William Galston

#Believe Quotes #Winning Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.”
“Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.”
“I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!”
“People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.”

Source : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.
“Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.”
“I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.”
“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.”

Source : James Laver (1949). “Style in costume”

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