"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."

-- Chris Patten

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.”
“I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!”
“But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.”
“Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you”
“I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!”
“It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.”
“CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.”
“I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.”

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