"Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman."

-- Karen Hawkins

#Underestimate Quotes #Bossy Quotes

“I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.”
“Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.”
“God sinks into dust before man.”
“The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.”
“Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.”
“The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black.”
“When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!”
“Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.

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