"Youâ€™re pretty smart for a Fed.â€ â€œI missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency,"

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Diana Rowland

#Smart Quotes #Agency Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012”
“I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.”

Source : "Penelope Cruz Is A Classic Hollywood Beauty On The Cover Of Harper’s Bazaar" By Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.
“To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.”

Source : Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black
“Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.”
“Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. Thatâ€™s what's really cute to me.”
“The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.”
“The fans in the United States, they are, well, more polite. The fans in Argentina can get, well, crazy.”
“Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.”

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