"In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!"

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Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.176, A&C Black

Ann Bridge

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“Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.”
“If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming into someone else. I love being able to act, work and act, and then doing it under the radar.”
“States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.72, W. W. Norton & Company
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
“I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.”
“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”
“The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.”
“Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.”

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