"The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says."

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Source : "Breyer'S Big Idea" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2005.

Stephen Breyer

#Wisdom Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Clue Quotes

“The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.”
“As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.”
“As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.”

Source : "From XLIII: An interview with Joe Montana". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. February 01, 2009.
“I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.”
“Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.”
“The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.”
“Color transmits and translates emotion.”
“The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.”

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