"The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House."

-- Maureen Dowd

#Sacrifice Quotes #White Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..”
“Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.”
“Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.”
“Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences.”
“Craziness is good. Crazy people are happy, free, they have no hindrance. But since you have many attachment, you are only a little crazy. This is not crazy enough. You must become completely crazy. Then you will understand.”
“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”
“The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.103, Penguin
“We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.”

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