"What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open,"

-- Jose Manuel Barroso

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes #Serendipity Quotes

“I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.”

Source : "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

Source : Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.
“Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.”
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”
“Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.”
“Am I, or the others crazy?”
“In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.”
“Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.”

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

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