"The difference between corporations and governments is governments have a monopoly on force. It's a lot easier to vote with your feet or your wallet than it is to change a government with your vote."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.”

Source : "Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis dish Black Swan". Interview with Lynn Barker, www.sheknows.com. November 30, 2010.
“It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.”
“Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act.”
“Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.”
“You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.”
“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

Source : "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.”

Source : Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.339
“Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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