"My life has been one long descent into respectability."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Mandy Rice-Davies

#Long Quotes #Descent Quotes #Respectability Quotes

“I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.”
“It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.”
“We assert that integrity (the condition of being whole and complete) is a necessary condition for workability, and that the resultant level of workability determines the available opportunity for performance. Hence, the way we treat integrity in our model provides an unambiguous and actionable access to superior performance (however one wishes to define performance).”
“For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.”
“One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.”
“Its either Christ or the other god.”
“If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.”
“Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.”

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