"For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts."

-- Anna Funder

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.”
“I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.”
“Enhancing a woman's silhouette and enhancing a woman's beauty - both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they're synonymous, really.”
“Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.”
“It matters not how long you live, but how well.”
“The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.”
“Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.”

Source : "Asquith". Book by Roy Jenkins, p. 22, 1964.
“I'm not making art, I'm making sushi”

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