"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."

-- John F. Kennedy

#Historical Quotes #Experience Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.”

Source : 1993 Of the Bert Lance Toe Test which he devised for his nine months in the Carter administration. In the Washington Post, 6 Oct.
“I always use the Internet. It's a great marketing tool. It's a great starting point, allowing you to show your trailer and have people all over world be able to see it. It was much harder in the old days.”
“They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.”
“Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.”
“The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.”

Source : Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”
“I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.”
“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”

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