"There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls."

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Source : "Landmark Study Reveals That CEOs Are Remarkably Similar to Babies" by Stanley Bing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

Stanley Bing

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“Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.”
“Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!”
“From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.”
“The clubs usually enforce no filming of performances pretty well. I want to know that what I'm doing is in the here and now and it's mine. I absolutely want control over my performances. And it is actually scary to see someone filming you without permission. Like Big Brother is watching. All these cameras don't make up for a life that isn't well-lived! I agree that people don't live in the moment, they instead live to make a name for themselves as "people who are living exciting lives and at great events".”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Sometimes I am still surprised that I'm a model and that people think I'm good-looking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”
“I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we should stop and rethink our strategy, ask ``Why are we here, what are we doing, what's succeeded, what's failed?'' And we ought to do that with the domestic Vietnam, which is the war on drugs.”

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