"If your ethical model defeats you, change the model."

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Source : DBC Pierre (2007). “Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

D.B.C. Pierre

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“Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.”
“If you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry.”
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
“It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.”
“We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.”
“If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.”
“For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.”

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