"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."

-- Lord Acton

#Exercise Quotes #Men Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I have a strong tennis arm.”
“We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.”
“It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.”
“My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.”
“In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.”

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“It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.”
“The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.”
“If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.”

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