"I finally stopped fretting and tried to think of Donald Trump's election as an opportunity. I didn't shift my thesis but I added some lines, in the Blurred Lines introduction, to my description of the progressive awakening that has happened in this country over the last five years - "Trump's presidency is a macroaggression". I wanted Trump to be a specter from the book's outset."

-- Vanessa Grigoriadis

#Country Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.”
“I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.”
“Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.”
“That's the conditions that prevail!”

Source : "Current Biography: Who's News and Why". Book by Anna Rothe (p. 168), 1946.
“Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.”
“They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1950). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.213, David R. Godine Publisher
“You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.”

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