"In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip."

-- Rick Perlstein

#Optimism Quotes #People Quotes #Saws Quotes

“My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.”
“The cure might be worse than the problem”
“The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter”

Source : Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
“I met Princess Anne once at a charity do and she said Blue Peter made her realise TV was all lies - she'd gone to Africa on safari with Valerie Singleton and they didn't see a thing, but when she watched it on TV they'd edited in some lion cubs. I was like, 'Oh dear.' I still don't know if she was joking or not.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.”
“Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.”
“There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.”
“My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.”

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