"The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people."

-- Phil Gramm

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.”
“Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!”
“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”

Source : Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books
“We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray.”
“What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.”
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.”
“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”

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