"The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them."

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Tony Judt

#Agility Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!”
“The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.”
“When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.”
“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
“Everyday, say a hundred things you love about yourself.”
“According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.”

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