"Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality."

-- Harold Nicolson

#Team Quotes #Personality Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.”
“The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.”
“I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.”
“I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.”

Source : "Being Black and "Difficult" in Hollywood". Interview with Ishmael Reed, www.counterpunch.org. September 24, 2010.
“Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!”
“I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.”
“We are the wise. Do not envy usâ€” We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdomâ€” We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.”

Source : Lois Duncan, Rudy Gutierrez (1999). “Trapped!: Cages of Mind and Body”, Simon Pulse
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Source : "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.

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