GovernmentWill Rogers This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. – Will Rogers Baby Quotes Congress Quotes Country Quotes Feel Quotes Government Quotes Hammer Quotes Hold Quotes Session Quotes On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They’ve been given directorships in every major company. They’re billionaires!
Damaris Phillips I loved the minute I realized I was good at cooking. Like, I had a moment – I made a roasted chicken, and I remember watching people’s faces as they ate it, and I thought at that time, ‘Oh, I am good at this.’ – Damaris Phillips
Paula Poundstone I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids. – Paula Poundstone
Roman Jakobson Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. – Roman Jakobson
Elisabeth Moss To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. – Elisabeth Moss
Alistair Horne Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky’s role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men’s residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev’s ‘blink’. – Alistair Horne
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