"Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power."

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Source : Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

Auberon Waugh

#Emotional Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.”
“People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.”
“Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.”
“The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.”
“The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.”
“A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.”
“The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Sometimes you do things without knowing the plan or how many cameras. You serve the camera - that's the big difference.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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