"Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one."

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Source : "Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1962.

Herbert Hoover

#President Quotes #Noble Quotes #Politician Quotes

“You gotta keep the funny intact.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.
“Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.”
“We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.”
“I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.”
“What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: Knighted for services to ideas and innovation". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.independent.co.uk. March 13, 2012.
“Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.”
“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.”

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