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- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
- Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
- The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Kate Reid
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