"I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted."

-- Toby Young

#Acceptance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“ObamaCare will ultimately destroy valuable jobs.”
“I'm not an industry artist - I'm an artist in the industry.”
“A fart in the face is love.”
“Michael Gove is the right leader for the country ... He can speak out to the aspirational underdog in our society, the kid from the council estate.”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.
“There's some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!”

Source : Television broadcast in final moments of World Cup soccer championship, 30 July 1966
“Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.”
“We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.”
“Alcoholism is the disease of more.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.57, Dial Press

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