"A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language."

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Marya Mannes

#Office Quotes #Syntax Quotes #Language Quotes

“You know, you may not be born in Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rican is definitely born in you.”

Source : "Rosie Perez' U.S.-Puerto Rico Documentary". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. April 27, 2006.
“I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.”
“You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 28, 2014
“I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but [your scent] is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.”
“Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.”

Source : 1983 'Children in Exile'.
“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
“I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year, and 99.99 percent of them are not good. I see no reason to do a new play just because it's new. It's like kissing your sister, a virtue, but so what? It seems to me more worthwhile to take a proven playwright and say, Write something for us.”
“I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.”

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