"To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#Destiny Quotes #America Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to watch hardcore Soviet propaganda.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“This is a big f...ing deal!”
“Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.”
“Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.”

Source : "Sugar Ray" by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, (p. 75), March 22, 1994.
“I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm a helluva kisser.”
“I'm fine," I told him tersely. "Of course you are. You're one of the strongest people I know." It took me a second to process that, because he'd said it so casually. Like he was talking about the weather or what time it was. Only Pritkin didn't say things like that. His idea of a compliment was a nod and to tell me to do whatever it was I'd just done over again. Like that was usually possible. But that had sounded suspiciously like a compliment to me.”
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”

Source : "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.
“Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!”

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