quotes about Showmanship

“Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.”

“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

“A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.”

“While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford”

Source : "American wine giant Ernest Gallo dies", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

“I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.”

“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”

“If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me.”

“Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.”

“I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.”