"Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida"

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Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

Stuart Hill

#Liars Quotes #Self Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Eliminate the clutter. That's the key. Eliminate the clutter and understand the important things. First and foremost, the most important thing is affecting the people around you in a positive way. Second thing is, be one of those guys that's going to out-study every person there is on what you need to do from a game-plan standpoint, what you need to do from a characteristic standpoint to stand apart. The last thing is, throw it to the color jersey we're wearing.”
“There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.”

Source : "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.
“There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from Mexico and... Texas as well. But what's going on now may end up being a kind of recolonization of the Southwest, because the other way you can regain territory is by population infiltration and demographic dominance.... The United States will be faced with the problem that Canada has been faced with... and which our system is not prepared to accommodate.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”
“Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kiba". "Wolf's Rain", 2003 - 2004.
“The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.”
“You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.”

Source : Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.
“As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.”

Source : "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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