"The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius."

-- Billy Wilder

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“I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.”

Source : "Charlie Bass' political comeback". www.politico.com. September 30, 2009.
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”
“Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.”
“I think about what I eat every day. I try to eat as locally as I can and as healthily as I can. When you prepare a historic recipe that could as easily been eaten in the 1800s as in 2014, it is a powerful act. When you take that food and its associated memory and put it in your body, it becomes part of who you are. While most people do not think about it consciously, there is an honoring of history that happens during that meal.”
“Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.”
“And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.”
“If you're not busy living, you're dying.”

Source : Vince Flynn (2010). “American Assassin: A Thriller”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.”

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