"I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth."

-- Miriam Makeba

#Long Quotes #Singing Quotes #Singers Quotes

“...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.”
“I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.”
“It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.406, Penguin
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
“Basketballs dont hold grudges!”
“He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.”
“We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.”

Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.
“I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.”

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