"Leadership from the Oval Office - and sustained, effective use of the bully pulpit - is essential to getting the American people off their too-pampered butts and into meeting successfully the long-haul challenges of fixing major problems in the very fabric of our republic's life, both domestically and in our international relations."

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Source : Interview with Daniel Schulman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

Lawrence Wilkerson

#Office Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.”
“The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.”

Source : "Heredity" Journal, 1973.
“The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.”
“Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.”
“What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.”
“Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.”
“Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.
“If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.”

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