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«All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
a couple of, bumble, Bumbles, choosing, crusade, crusades, cured, Election year, fever, intractable, Messiah, poke, presidency, Presidents, The Messiah, the presidency
«At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.»
Author: Leon Botstein
| Keywords:
at best, college, corporation, faltering, falters, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, Presidents, The Corporation
«Dress impressively like the French, speak with authority like the Germans, have blond hair like the Scandinavians and speak of no American presidents except Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kennedy.»
Author: Sylvaine Rouy Neves
| Keywords:
American Presidents, blond, Germans, impressively, Kennedy, Lincoln, Presidents, President Kennedy, President Roosevelt, Roosevelt, the French, with authority
«Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers hunger for the perfect reviewer.»
Author: Thomas Fleming
| Keywords:
coach, director, historian, pope, Presidents, priests, reviewer, reviewers, yearn
«But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they read their first review.»
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
bunch, cutting, dividend, dividends, in the first place, launch, of a sudden, owning, Presidents, Public place, public works, stock, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.»
«A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
air space, heads of state, head of state, journalist, Presidents
«All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
captains, decree, den, God Save the King, governors, governors and, King He, Presidents, statute
«A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coincidence, last half, legislator, legislators, mention, nation state, not to mention, potty-trained, potty, Presidents, The Nation, trained
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