"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."

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Source : Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

W. Averell Harriman

#Names Quotes #Calling Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, 'I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight', people would say, 'Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth.”
“We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story. And somehow, miraculously, a story that comes from deep in my heart calls from a reader that which is deepest in his or her heart, and together from our secret hidden selves we create a story that neither of us could have told alone.”
“You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.”
“Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.”
“I looked at the canine companion. â€œMe cookies. You stay.”
“The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel.”
“Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.”
“Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.”

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