“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.”
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“I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.”
“The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.”
“I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.”
“Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.”
“Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
“Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.”
“I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.”
“One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"”
“If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?”
“Opportunities increase as they are taken.”
“You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.”
“I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'”
“Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.”
“For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.”
“As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.”
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
“Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.”
“If your pussy was so good, you would drive a better car.”