"I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did."

-- Paul Westerberg

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time.”
“I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul”
“I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he may have fallen into as hyperbolical an extreme, yet who can put too great a scorn upon their folly, that, to bring home a rascal deer, or a few rotten conies, submit their lives to the will or passion of such as may take them under a penalty no less slight than there is discretion shown in exposing them.”
“The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.”

Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.211
“Obama wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.”
“As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.”

Source : "Q&A: The Comedy Writer Merrill Markoe" by Joyce Wadler, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2011.
“The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.”
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

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