"The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them."

-- Barack Obama

#Winning Quotes #Important Quotes #Population Quotes

“Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.”
“One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.”
“And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.”
“It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.”
“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?”
“I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.”

Source : "A civilized discussion with Don Winslow, the author and co-screenwriter of 'Savages'". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. July 3, 2012.
“Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.”
“Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.”

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