"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."

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Gloria Swanson

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“The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.”
“The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!”
“I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.”
“Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.”
“If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.”
“In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.”

Source : "Only Kids Can Fix This Economy" by J. B. Pritzker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.
“I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.”
“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.”

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