"A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature."

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Source : "Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship". Book by Owen Wister, p. 66, 1930.

James Bryce

#Careers Quotes #Political Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the designing are all the same. The technique of animation has changed, in the sense that rather than drawing it by hand, we use a computer as a tool. The computer has become a pencil to draw or paint the images that we see in a film.”
“and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.”
“Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories”
“You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"”
“One question I often ask is why the church doesn't set aside funds specifically to seed new ideas. A lot of our money tends to go into existing, literally physical buildings, or existing parishes, programs, and schools, and we have nothing that is very explicitly dedicated toward new ventures of all kinds that would help parishes, help education, help catechesis.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“The influence I would hope to have is to create an environment where we're not singling Americans out - that we are creating opportunities for all Americans. Not saying, 'I'm going to funnel money into your city so that you're completely dependent on government.”
“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”
“A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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