"The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive."

-- Jackie French

#Song Quotes #Dancing Quotes #Dying Quotes

“All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.”
“Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.”

Source : "The 'Fast-Food' Computer Company". Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.”
“For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.”
“It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.”
“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.”
“I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.”

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