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Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years. ↗

— John Negroponte

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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#believer #created #else #guess #his

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beautiful #celebrated #changing #discovered #first

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#most #paintings #people #respond #spectators

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse. ↗

— Ben Nelson

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If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#cannot #least #move #move on #ought

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

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