"Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Acquired Taste Quotes #Taste Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“My life has been quite interesting professionally,”
“Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.”
“Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.”

Source : "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.
“Shut your noise, you old c***!”
“Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia.”
“Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author”
“I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.”
“In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?”

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