"I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please."

-- Robert M. Gates

#Thinking Quotes #President Quotes #Said Quotes

“In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one”
“Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.”

Source : JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”
“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin
“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”
“The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.”
“Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.”

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