"Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms."

-- Joseph Joubert

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“The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".”
“Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.”
“Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.”
“For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.”
“What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.”
“In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.”
“I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.”

Source : "'Why are the catwalks so white?'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“You really had to learn to protect yourself from all Gooks in Vietnam, or else you would end up dead.”

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