"The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow."

-- Yakubu Gowon

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“Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.”
“The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.”
“Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.”
“I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d'etre behind it that I feel is important then that's the best for me.”

Source : "Denzel Washington and Norman Jewison - part two". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.
“in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure”
“I don't know who came up with this push present idea, but I think it's probably a female.”
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

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