"When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world."

-- Dee Dee Myers

#Play Quotes #White Quotes #House Quotes

“Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.”
“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”
“This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning cry, It matters not; the elements rehearse Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly Unswervingly, until, upreached on high, A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.”
“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.31, Penguin
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Source : Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
“My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.”
“What will you do now with the gift of your left life?”

Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2012). “The Bees”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
“I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.”

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