"I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues."

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Source : "Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83" by Victoria Fleischer, www.pbs.org. November 20, 2014.

Geraldine Ferraro

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“The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.”
“Elvis Presley isÂ the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.”
“Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.”
“... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.”
“Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.”
“The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.”

Source : Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books
“We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.”
“You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a complete transformation of your personal self into your universal self . . . the complete loss of all fear, including death. You have become a being who radiates love the same way the sun radiates light. You have finally arrived at the place from which your journey began.”

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