"We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."

-- Barbara Jordan

#Sea Quotes #People Quotes #Example Quotes

“I should say that feminism gave me permission to deal with my own emotional life and put it up front in certain ways, or use film as a way to examine, at that time, my own heterosexual experience. Lives of Performers was the beginning of that kind of investigation. But also, the film was influenced by the aesthetics and structures of experimental film as that was taking place at the same time. Hollis Frampton was a big influence on me at that time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't have a director. The audience directs me.”
“There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 25, 2013
“Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.”

Source : John McCain, Mark Salter (2000). “Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir”, p.278, Random House
“For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.”
“All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.”

Source : Michel Quoist (1963). “Meaning Success”
“In that he didn't die at the finish line, he could have run faster”
“Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.”

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