"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."

-- June Jordan

#Political Quotes #Brilliant Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If a thing goes without saying -- let it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speech openers and closers”
“The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.”

Source : "Grimes: nine days without food, sleep or company gave me Visions". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.
“You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one. I have spent my life in books; literature has deeply dyed my brain its own colour. This literary colouring is a protective one--like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail--making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin.”
“Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.”
“If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.”
“Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously be a physical attraction, but scent is something that stays with you. It's something that you remember about a person.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“I want a woman to walk past and say, "I would love to be in a picture with him."”

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