"Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?"

-- Russell Baker

#Passion Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Long Quotes

“The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing ***** plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.”

Source : Mark Haskell Smith (2012). “Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup”, p.33, Broadway Books
“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”
“I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though youre poking fun at someone or something, theres still an affection for it.”
“My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.”
“Don't be humble... you're not that great.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1969
“All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.”
“Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.”

Source : "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

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