"People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked."

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Leadership Quotes #People Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.”
“Although I entertain great respect and regard for the female sex I consider the qualifications of the ladies to be already sufficiently charming without adding to their influence in society by conferring on them the right to vote for members of the legislature.”
“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”
“Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.”

Source : Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press
“There are no jobs on a dead planet.”
“O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (1751). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”
“There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.”

Source : "BASEBALL; Yankees Add Their Centerpiece" by Tyler Kepner, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 2005.
“To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.”

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