"I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party."

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Source : "Kanye, Miley and the death of the diva" by LZ Granderson,, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2013.

Leontyne Price

#Party Quotes #Guests Quotes #Well Mannered Quotes

“The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.”
“Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.”
“There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.”
“I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.”
“You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.”
“Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.”
“This bank-note world.”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1848). “The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists”, p.15
“How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.”

Source : "Apple's First Marketing Guru on Why '1984' Is Overrated". Interview with Matthew Creamer, adage.com. March 01, 2012.

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