"I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'"

-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Political Quotes #Haute Couture Quotes #Language Quotes

“Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.”
“(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
“Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.”
“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”

Source : "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, 2006.
“Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.”

Source : "'Corporate psychopaths' at large" by Lisa Desai, edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.
“Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.”
“I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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