"Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention."

-- Jack Woodford

#Attention Quotes #Flattery Quotes #Proof Quotes

“I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.”
“A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.”

Source : "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". SuperReturn conference in Berlin, www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.
“You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.”
“I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows... I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation.”
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
“Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.”
“Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?”
“So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.”

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