"the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

Margaret Halsey

#Competition Quotes #Quality Quotes #Clock Quotes

“I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.”
“The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.24, Crown
“I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.”
“Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.”

Source : Source: the-attic.net
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
“For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.”
“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
“It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.”

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