"Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One."

-- Nancy Gibbs

#Air Quotes #President Quotes #Identity Quotes

“When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.”
“I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the fact that the patron saint of modern liberalism, John Stuart Mill, thought that barbarian peoples like the Indians were unfit for self-rule.”
“I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.”
“Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.”
“Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.”

Source : "Who You Need to Know Behind the Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight" by Gary Andrew Poole, www.esquire.com. May 01, 2015.
“You should never take more than you give”
“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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