"The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe."

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Source : Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

Gertrude Stein

#Believe Quotes #Government Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.”
“Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.”

Source : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
“I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.
“I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.”
“I honestly believe that if I decided to be the president of the United States, I could do it. That might sound foolish to some. But in my mind, if Ronald Reagan can become president, why not Will Smith?”
“I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.”
“There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting,”
“We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.”

Source : Speech to the National Convention, February 05, 1794.

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