#tart

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going. ↗

— Tom Felton

#been #before #crazy #even #getting

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bolsheviks #itself #just #killing #money

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#come #first #had #i #know

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#diaries #i #into #just #lazy

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers. ↗

— Herman Cain

#because #code #corporate #everybody #fair

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't. ↗

— Michael Caine

#conviction #done #end #firm #firm conviction

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad. ↗

— James Cameron

#child #childless #die #even #film

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#arms race #efforts #instead #leadership #nation

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#average #costs #each #easier #ending