"The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting..."

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Source : Daniel Ellsberg (1972). “Papers on the war”, Pocket

Daniel Ellsberg

#Reality Quotes #President Quotes #Acting Quotes

“I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!”
“The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.”
“You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”
“I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.”
“It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.”
“Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.”
“Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.”
“I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.”

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