"I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great."

-- Steve Inskeep

#Jobs Quotes #Smart Quotes #Military Quotes

“I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the young must make love, and the photographer must, I suppose, be ready to photograph it all.”
“surfeits kill more than fasting does ...”

Source : Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
“In Western Europe, most countries have variations of the lifetime pension system for most workers so they are keeping the system that we are walking away from. By comparison, 50% of the American workforce is not offered any retirement plan by their employers. And of those who are offered a plan, roughly 25% do not choose to join. In other words, everything is voluntary, and that's one of the reasons our results are so perilous for most people.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!”
“What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.”
“I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.”
“I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.”

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