"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."

-- Helen Keller

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“I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.”
“I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.”

Source : "Critical Mass" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.
“It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of thinking about my life. It showed me that things can disappear like the snap of your fingers. As a young guy you thought you were invincible and nothing could ever hurt you, and stuff like that, and living life to the fullest.”
“The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.”
“Women are smarter than men because they listen.”
“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”
“Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.”
“Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!”

Source : "17 Questions with PLL's Keegan Allen". Interview with Kara Mcgrath, www.seventeen.com. June 28, 2011.

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