"Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him."

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Source : "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

Douglas Brinkley

#Wise Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.”
“When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.”
“O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!”
“The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage
“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Source : "LeRoy Neiman dies aged 91", www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.
“I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.”

Source : "QVC Artist: The Movie" by Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2008.
“Southern lawyers don't read novels much.”

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