"As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself."

-- John Fahey

#Fame Quotes #Full Of Yourself Quotes

“It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.”

Source : "Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's". BBC Cult Interview, www.bbc.co.uk. December 10, 2003.
“Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!”
“You make yourself available to the movement. At that point, for example, battered wives were not on the top of anybody's list. It was, "What did you do to provoke him? Why would he do that to you?" Stuff like that. I called the hotline, and I said I was available to help get orders of protection. I would help do whatever needed to be done, serve their papers. Many times, they'd go to court, get their papers, and then be afraid to serve them on the guy. So that was one source of income. But I took anything that came across my doorstep.”
“Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability in behavior that traditional virtue ethics requires for someone to have a one-word-in-English character trait such as "benevolence". Other things being equal, a person with more of a desire for other people's wellbeing will do more for other people's wellbeing, but things are almost never equal.”
“I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.”
“I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.”
“In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.”

Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
“You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance”

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