"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."

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Bao ?ai

#Country Quotes #Independent Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.”
“The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.”
“I was at a Madonna show many, many years ago and I was in the sweet spot and she came out and I mean it was the best part of the show. And I was shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. And I'm like, "God, I must have shot a hundred pictures have I not run out of film?" And I opened the back of my camera and there was no film in there. So that happened to me only once.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. Itâ€™s a groundling thing.”

Source : Martha Wells (2012). “The Serpent Sea”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
“Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.”
“Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.”
“Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.”

Source : "Darius Green and his Flying-Machine". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, 1910.
“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.457, Simon and Schuster

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