"I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying."

-- Pat Paulsen

#Lying Quotes #Order Quotes #Tactics Quotes

“If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world have never been.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.89
“I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.”
“As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.”
“Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?â€ I asked my teacher. â€œThere is,â€ my teacher answered me. â€œWell, what is it?â€ I asked. â€œItâ€™s...â€ began my teacher and suddenly fell silent. I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was silent. And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent. Weâ€™re both standing and silent. Ho-la-la! Weâ€™re both standing and silent. Ho-le-le! Yes, yes, weâ€™re both standing and silent! 16-17 July 1937”
“A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.”
“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.”
“You can't get more by going for less.”
“To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.”

Source : Shannon Lowry, Edward S. Curtis (1994). “Natives of the Far North: Alaska's Vanishing Culture in the Eye of Edward Sheriff Curtis”, p.6, Stackpole Books

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