"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."

-- Maureen Dowd

#Beautiful Quotes #Giving Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
“The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.”
“The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.”
“When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.”

Source : "The Commissioners". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 8, 2004.
“Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.”

Source : Walter Goodman (1963). “All Honorable Men”
“I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm very serious; I don't waste my earnings.”

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