"The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them."

-- John Irving

#Way Quotes #Taxes Quotes

“Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.”
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.”
“I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.”
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”

Source : "Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden (Humility)". Book by John Selden and Richard Milward, 1689.
“If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.”
“I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.”
“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?”

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