quotes about Soul Searching

“A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.”

“My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.”

“There are lots of small businesses in Britain that have a pretty tough time but many of them are also parts of supply chains, the leave side roll out JCB but that's one company, all the experts are saying the economy would take a big hit if we came out of the EU.”

“[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.”

“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.81, Faber & Faber

“There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry. I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama.' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something.”

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”

“I left. When I should have stayed.”

“[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!”

“I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.”