"Iâ€™ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,"

-- Richard Posner

#Party Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Conservative Quotes

“My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.”
“I looked at a lot of the comics and I tried to just get an idea from that. Not necessarily specifics of what my look would be or what the plan would be because I knew the script was evolving. I then started the discussion with Ken, who had been in discussion with you guys, intimately. And that they'd pared it down.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.”

Source : Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.
“When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.”
“As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.”
“Editing is the most companionable form of education.”
“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.”
“I canâ€™t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”

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