"Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president."

-- James T. Walsh

#New York Quotes #Party Quotes #People Quotes

“How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
“When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.”
“Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.”
“There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.”
“I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2007). “The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being”, p.186, W. W. Norton & Company
“It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.”
“An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.”

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