"Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'."

-- Robert H. Jackson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security reasons you have to go to those schools. We had a privileged life, fine, but also very secure. So I think it's great where the [Barack] Obama daughters are going to school.”
“If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?”
“Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.”

Source : "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.
“All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.”
“Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.”

Source : "Proposition 8 ruling excerpts from U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker [updated]". latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 4, 2010.
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Source : Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.”

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