"Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous."

-- Alexander Hamilton

#Human Nature Quotes #False Hope Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.”

Source : "Amy Pascal: An untypical leading lady who's taken Sony to the top". Interview with Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2006.
“I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.”
“I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.”
“The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.”
“When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.”
“I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.”
“Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.”

Source : "Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.
“My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.”

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