"Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either."

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Source : Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2178, eBookIt.com

Booth Tarkington

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“Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up.”

Source : "Edwina Currie's horror as Apprentice star Katie Hopkins defends Sky Sports sexism row" by Georgina Littlejohn, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 28, 2011.
“American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.”
“The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.”
“Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.”
“If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.”
“The people who are doing really well and who are getting stopped in airports are the people who are going to say the more outrageous things and get on TV and state their opinion on a regular basis.”
“My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.”
“I always say that you should just listen to it and see what you think it sounds like it is. I don't think it should be labeled. Most musicians feel like that. No one wants to put their music in a category. But, I don't think it's all over the place. I don't go from metal to jazz, or anything crazy.”

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