"By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were."

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Source : "Senior White House Staff May Be Wearing Down" by Peter Baker, www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 2006.

Ed Rollins

#Tired Quotes #Years Quotes #White Quotes

“In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.”
“The wind is tossing the lilacs, The new leaves laugh in the sun, And the petals fall on the orchard wall, But for me the spring is done. Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way, For love that smiled in April Is false to me in May.”
“You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”
“The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.”
“All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,”
“I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.”
“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.”
“Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.”

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