"The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power."

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Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

Millicent Fenwick

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Self Control Quotes

“A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.”
“I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.”
“I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.”
“For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.”
“You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power.”

Source : "The Importance of Sadness" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2011.
“The essence of style is how you live your life”
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“Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason”

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