"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

-- Garrison Keillor

#Fake People Quotes #Believe Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasnâ€™t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.”

Source : "THEATER; Over and Over the Same War" by Sylviane Gold, www.nytimes.com. March 25, 2001.
“The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.”
“There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”
“Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
“I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.”
“A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.”
“I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.”
“I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.”

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