Nina Totenberg Quotes

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

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• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

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• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

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• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

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• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

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• I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

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• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

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• If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

  

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• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

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• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

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• 'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''

  

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• There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.

  

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• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  

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• What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.

  

  Nina Totenberg
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