"I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time."

-- Robert Harris

#Crazy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.”
“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.”
“The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.”
“I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.”
“I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.”
“It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love, it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so weak, so ill, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.”

Source : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 12), 1975.
“I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.”
“Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”

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