"[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range of options that are available to the president, lay them out in an honest, brokerage way and then let the president make the choice among those options."

-- Lawrence O'Donnell

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“What great executives do is not magic. Their performance is made possible by specific, identifiable skills.”
“Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.”

Source : Stephen Potter (1962). “Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship”
“Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.”
“Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.”

Source : "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.
“I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.”
“In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.”
“I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.”
“Valentino lives his life like the Queen of England - he lives in the bubble. But he designs for royals, so it's almost a business decision, even though he would do it anyway. He wants to be part of that world.”

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