"As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else."

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Source : "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Abstinence)". TV Series, June 5, 2006.

Joycelyn Elders

#Long Quotes #Decision Quotes #Good Enough Quotes

“Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.”
“I enjoy my life very much.”
“A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.”
“The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.”
“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”
“Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.”
“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”

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