"O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!"

-- Alexander the Great

#Toil Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Please Quotes

“I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.”

Source : Anthony Giddens (1991). “Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.184, Stanford University Press
“The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.”
“This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.”
“I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.”
“I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.”
“My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.”
“I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.”

Source : Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.

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