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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f81d90c | As Georges Clemenceau, reporting on Reconstruction for a French newspaper, observed after the war, "Any Democrat who did not manage to hint that the negro is a degenerate gorilla would be considered lacking in enthusiasm."57" -- | Eric Foner | ||
| d8d88cc | The world, declared the Radical Chicago Tribune, commenting on the draft, needed to be shown that the American government "can confidently command the support of its citizens, and make the duty of the individual to the state a debt to be collected." Such views were forcefully echoed among Northern reformers and intellectuals" | Eric Foner | ||
| 7a61bff | I am vice president," wrote John Adams, the first to inhabit the office. "In this I am nothing. But I may be everything." In January 1961, as Lyndon Johnson left the Senate for the vice presidency, his future held the dim but tantalizing promise of the presidency, of "everything." But in the meantime LBJ would not resign himself to nothingness. It was not his nature. Throughout his life Johnson had assumed positions with no inherent power b.. | Jeff Shesol | ||
| 460cdea | As we worked on From These Roots together, she struggled to voice her feelings about the passing of her siblings and grandmother. For long periods, she could do little more than wipe the tears from her eyes. I offered sympathy, and together we sat in silence. Finally came the day when she began to speak of the ordeals. In her mind, though, she had reversed the chronology; she had Big Mama dying after Cecil when, in fact, Rachel Franklin had.. | David Ritz | ||
| 7784d94 | Train your body to act confidently so your mind follows suit. This is what the experts recommend. It's a lot easier to whip your body into shape than your brain. You know all the basic stuff: Stand tall, look people in the eye, smile and speak up. Start practising your CONFIDENCE BOOSTERs on the least intimidating people. Work your way up to the most difficult. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 00d12f4 | What super-sure looks like A multitude of fascinating factors come under the 'looking confident 'umbrella. There isn't space here to explore the thousands of subtle signs that signal confidence. I cover them in my book How to Talk to Anyone. However, here are a few hints to tide you over. Self-assureds do the following things instinctively. You can do them consciously until they become second nature. 1. When you are at a gathering, do not s.. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| b3d43e4 | apprehensive | Leil Lowndes | ||
| fd8af42 | Serce ma swoje racje, o ktorych nic nie wie rozum" - Pascal" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 59b161a | DON'T TOUCH A CLICHE WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6297d9e | whenever people meet you, they take an instant mental snapshot. That image of you becomes the data they deal with for a very long time. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 821651b | Your eyes are personal grenades that have the power to detonate people's emotions. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| f0d98dd | Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." MARK TWAIN" | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 9cf42c3 | The exact moment that two humans lay eyes on each other has awesome potency. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 282b85e | When we find people with the supernatural powers of perception to recognize our remarkableness, we become addicted to the heady drug of their appreciation. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| dc34371 | Small talk is about putting people at ease. Your unspoken answer to their unspoken question, "How do you like me so far?" must be, "Wow! I really like you." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 3dfd8d1 | Do humanity and yourself a favor. Never, ever, give just a one-sentence response to the question, "Where are you from?" Give the asker some fuel for his tank, some fodder for his trough." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| ef57df0 | The moment someone looks at you, he or she experiences a massive hit, the impact of which lays the groundwork for the entire relationship. Just give 'em great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| c43c115 | Let's hear it again!" The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is "Tell them about the time you . . ." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| dff0c53 | Never be left speechless again. Like a parrot, simply repeat the last few words your conversation partner says. That puts the ball right back in his or her court, and then all you need to do is listen. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6473a3e | Similarity breeds attraction. When you delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it, it has much more punch. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| a8209e0 | Never let the phrase thank you stand naked and alone. 'Thank you for being such a good customer.' 'Thank you for being so loving. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 5d7e279 | Do you usually go hiking? This weekend, take a tennis lesson. Do you bowl? Leave that to your buddies this time. Why? Because it will give you conversational fodder for the rest of your life. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 0c38018 | Spend time with people you choose, not just those who choose you. Be choosey in who you pick. But don't wait to be the choosee. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 3ff8792 | At the end of the conversation, look the individual right in the eye. Say his or her name and proceed to curl all ten toes with the Killer Compliment. | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 0ef0ee3 | he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| a5a4207 | George's father was a bus driver and he was planning to buy him his own bus. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 1fbecc7 | events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys' breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 31a478e | the boys wanted someone they could have a laugh with, someone who shared their irreverent sense of humour. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 1efd08e | When Mo and Ringo parted in 1974 she had been so heartbroken that she got on a motorbike and drove it straight into a brick wall, badly injuring herself. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| cd3bbfc | John's particular talents hadn't gone unnoticed but they weren't his artistic talents. They were his talents for having his fellow students fall about with shocked, uncontrollable laughter at his wicked, disrespectful wit. His ability to disrupt a lecture had to be seen to be believed and John's appearance was even worse than his humour. I think he was the last stronghold of the Teddy Boys - totally aggressive and anti-establishment. My fir.. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 60ec59d | I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer. | digital-culture information-society | Theodore Roszak | |
| 05a5dcd | Dumb as I was about movies at that stage of my life, I had no trouble understanding her response. Vampires. Even I knew that wasn't art, wasn't the least bit like the things we came to The Classic to see: movies about tortured relationships, despair, and the meaninglessness of life--like La Strada, The Bicycle Thief, or The Seventh Seal. Really good movies, as I understood it, made you want to go out and drown yourself. Vampire | Theodore Roszak | ||
| 4c01cd2 | It made him feel like a mom, ineffectual and sexless. | Christopher Bram | ||
| 5d2d1b3 | Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for . There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire")." -- | Christopher Bram | ||
| d7e1339 | Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. | gay-neoghbourhoods writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 0e2b81c | Everybody is Other in Maupin. | other gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| db92f40 | In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. | writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 9ad87e1 | Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock). | writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 4a94181 | Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? | gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 4706689 | Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books - it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love. | promiscuity liberation writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 14ccf29 | I hate hating myself. It's boring. But there's nobody else to hate. | Christopher Bram | ||
| fb88cb2 | She was sitting up. She lifted and pulled at her blankets, but it was gone. The hippopotamus of wisdom was nowhere in sight. | Christopher Bram | ||
| f0515f0 | He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts. | Christopher Bram | ||
| 845ced9 | Throwing himself a party was like rubbing his nose in his failure to connect with people. | Christopher Bram |