"It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower."

-- Harry S. Truman

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“The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.”
“Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.”
“The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.”
“No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.”
“I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that”
“Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.”
“No government functions without the grease of corruption.”

Source : Carlos Fuentes (2007). “The Eagle's Throne: A Novel”, p.37, Random House
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”

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