"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."

-- Sydney Pollack

#Thinking Quotes #Nerd Quotes #Politics Quotes

“We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.”
“Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.”
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
“One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.”
“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”
“Art deals with profound and simple moods.. ..Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist )Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it.. ..he will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Source : The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.
“Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all forms of life were in a state of immortality. There was no death in the world; death entered after the fall.”
“After eight years on 'Young and the Restless' and eight years on 'Criminal Minds,' I'm ready for that next phase of my career.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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