"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative."

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Source : Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

Maurice Chevalier

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“Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.”
“I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.”
“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.”

Source : Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”
“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”
“Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work.”
“the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.”

Source : Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.200, SAGE
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”
“If I can think of anything, but nothing specific that I have learned, is the time management and discipline and stay focused. Mentally focused to be aware. Our training sessions are mentally packed. We work on very specific game plans and strategies.”

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