"You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing."

-- Laura Bush

#Opportunity Quotes #Race Quotes #Texas Quotes

“So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!”

Source : Jonathan Littell (2009). “The Kindly Ones”, p.251, Random House
“People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.”
“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68
“I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.”
“Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions”
“At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon â€• the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.”
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countriesâ€™ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”
“A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.”

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