"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."

-- Camille Paglia

#Winning Quotes #Doors Quotes #Flames Quotes

“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
“I could not think without writing.”

Source : Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers
“I declare that I am a bachelor.”
“The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.”

Source : JOHN B. JERVIS (1872). “A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS”, p.3
“I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity. My name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when Iâ€™m interviewed. Itâ€™s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, theyâ€™ll print the truth.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As much as we stereotype the women, we do it with the guys. The guys are all good looking, not too many ugly superheroes. Theyâ€™ve all got their hair gelled back. They have got perfect pecs on them. They have no hair on their chest. I mean, they are Ryan Gosling on steroids. Right? They are all beautiful. So we actually stereotype and do it to both sexes. We just happen to show a little more skin when we get to the ladies.”
“You should do what you have to do.”
“Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.”

Source : "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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