"All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues."

-- Tony Judt

#Party Quotes #Past Quotes #President Quotes

“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”
“I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.”

Source : Source: www.acclaimmag.com
“It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.”
“How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.”
“Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.”
“Something impractical cannot be beautiful.”

Source : Otto Wagner (1988). “Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to this Field of Art”, p.82, Getty Publications
“What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 8, 2015

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