"I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen."

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Source : "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.

J. Edgar Hoover

#Men Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything”
“Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.”
“I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.”
“A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.”

Source : "Alison Jackson's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2007.
“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-â€œhappiness.â€ He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”
“I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.”
“I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.”
“There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.”

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