"Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'"

-- Bob Woodward

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #President Quotes

“The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.”
“Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.”
“There are still many, many uncertainties, challenges and difficulties in Afghanistan. But we have to enable the Afghans to manage those challenges themselves. We cannot solve all the problems for the Afghans.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.”
“Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist...”
“In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.”

Source : Ellen Dissanayake (1992). “Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why”
“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”
“When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.”

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