"You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician."

-- Dalton Trumbo

#Feet Quotes #Air Quotes #Honest Quotes

“In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?”
“You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Thank you, Governor [Sarah] Palin, for your endorsement. Because she got behind. She got behind us war-weary folks and gave us a boost of encouragement when we needed it. And she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.”

Source : Delaware Republican Senate Primary Victory Speech, delivered 14 September 2010
“Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.”
“I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.”

Source : "Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih dies aged 80" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2009.
“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
“I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.”
“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”

Source : Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books

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