"The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world."

-- Leni Riefenstahl

#World Quotes #Numb Quotes #Loud Quotes

“The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.”
“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”
“What is necessary is never a risk.”

Source : "Mémoires". Book by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, 1718.
“I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.”
“If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.”
“I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.”
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.
“And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.”

Source : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.143, Hachette UK

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