"I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months."

-- Alain Robert

#People Quotes #Speech Quotes #Months Quotes

“Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'”
“Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.”
“Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.”
“To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
“I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.”
“If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collectors found their own private museums or try to establish a memorial to themselves in the form of their collections, it's part of the old aristocratic mentality. I think a collection ought to be dismantled after the collector's death.”
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
“I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.”

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