"A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it."

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Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books

Murray Kempton

#Leader Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Unbroken Quotes

“We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.”
“Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.”
“John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.”
“I intend to make Georgia howl.”
“Clint Eastwood's a good friend, too - he and I used to play in softball games together.”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'" by Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when”
“Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.”
“When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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