#tract

When I wasn't as attractive as I am now, I suffered at the hands of cruel children and their taunts until I realised that confidence and a bit of aesthetic care can overcome that. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#am #attractive #bit #care #children

We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#been #contracts #does #enormous #firm

America is addicted to wars of distraction. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#america #distraction #wars

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like

People used to ask me: 'Well, was it the power that attracted you to Bill Clinton?' And I said, well, how much power do you think the attorney general of Arkansas has? Of course not. It wasn't that for me. I just a thought he was wonderful in general. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#ask #attorney #attorney general #attracted #bill

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#around #attractive #because #being #being myself

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#cent #contract #i #iraq #never

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #democratic country #endanger #fail #freedom