"Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor! This is not only a bar too low, this is no bar at all. I don't care who you are, you know 20 people smarter than Ronald Reagan. You know 20 people who would be a better president than Ronald Reagan."

--

Fran Lebowitz

#People Quotes #President Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.”
“I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion ...”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1874). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.70
“Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.”
“Regarding the air raid over Los Angeles it was learned by Army G2 that Rear Admiral Anderson...recovered an unidentified airplane off the coast of California...with no bearing on conventional explanation. This Headquarters has come to the determination that the mystery airplanes are in fact not earthly and, according to secret intelligence sources, they are in all probability of interplanetary origin.”
“Personal privacy is a closely held American value.”

Source : "More Calif. hearings on AT&T/T-Mobile to come - DoD to unveil cyber strategy today - House E&C holds privacy hearing - House Dems not pleased with GOP spectrum bill" by Tony Romm, www.politico.com. July 14, 2011.
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
“Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.”

Source : Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.116, Open Road Media

You may also like:

Andy Warhol
Artist
Annie Leibovitz
Photographer
Dorothy Parker
Poet
Frank Rich
Essayist
Graydon Carter
Journalist
Junya Watanabe
Fashion designer
Martin Scorsese
Film director
Mellody Hobson
Businesswoman
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Author