"I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting"

-- Laura Marling

#Smart Quotes #People Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.”
“Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.”
“Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?”
“The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.”

Source : "Last-minute glitches mar Russia-Belarus merger". www.cnn.com. April 1, 1997.
“I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.”
“How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.”

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