"Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely."

-- Cab Calloway

“I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.”
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
“I've never doubted my ability.”
“We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.”
“All change begins with someone having a thought.”

Source : Paul Morley (2013). “The North: (And Almost Everything In It)”, p.679, Bloomsbury Publishing
“What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.”
“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.”
“I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.”

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