"You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time."

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Source : Tove Jansson (2003). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.17, Penguin UK

Tove Jansson

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“I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.”
“Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.”
“Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.”

Source : "A Candid Conversation with SWITCHED AT BIRTH Star Sean Berdy". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. March 06, 2012.
“I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.”
“When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.”
“[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.”
“For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.”

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