"I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team."

-- Amy Bloom

#Perseverance Quotes #Team Quotes #Winning Quotes

“You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.”
“I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.”

Source : "Fear game" by Lucy Carrigan, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2008.
“No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money.”
“Be modest, be humble, be simple,”
“I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.”
“Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.”
“John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.”
“I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A lot of authors of color, a lot of women of color - those become central to the intellectual trajectory. It considers music, but it also considers areas of thought that might seem unrelated to music. That's partly because we're expanding the notion of what music is beyond objects, beyond scores, beyond things.”

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