"Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity."

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Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

Barry Goldwater

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“Writing a great song is not a simple task, but I feel like when everything comes together and you sing it in a certain way that no-one else can sing it, when it's written in a certain way that's perfect for the way that you're performing it, that those are the things that make a song great.”
“Change, change,--we all covet change.”
“It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.”
“Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.”
“Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.”
“I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.”

Source : "Roma Downey: No voice of an angel" by Donna Freydkin, www.cnn.com. October 15, 1999.
“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”

Source : "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind". Manga series by Hayao Miyazaki, vol. 8, 1982-1994.
“At night I leave the lights on in my little house and walks across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance the house is like a boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.”

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