"France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal."

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Rich Lowry

#America Quotes #France Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.”
“Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.”
“Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.”
“About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.”
“While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard,”

Source : "What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. October 9, 2009.
“I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck”
“I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, and then bullying my way to the top, that is the conclusion I've come to.”

Source : "Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez, Sumiko Tan, 1997.
“We have a family calendar and it's how everybody runs. In truth, there's no trick to balancing it. If you look at the calendar and you've seen you've gone 10 days without a date night, you know you need to prioritize more.”

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