"America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside."

-- Matt Taibbi

#Country Quotes #America Quotes #Age Quotes

“In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.”
“Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.”
“I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.”
“A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.”

Source : Hans Finzel (2013). “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make”, p.19, David C Cook
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”

Source : "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.
“There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.”
“Obviously it takes eight brains to come to one decision in this crowd. Good thing they have one another.”

Source : Mari Mancusi (2007). “Girls That Growl”, p.24, Penguin
“I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.”

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