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Johann Lamont Quotes

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: July 11, 1957

Topics

Together Ambition World Talk Real

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Art Genius More Own Show Almost

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

Together Army Boots Know Sometimes

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni

Beautiful Best Words Giving Doing

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

Michael Ritchie

Chair Too Much Sitting Carry Weight

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Roots Trees Take Storms Make Deeper

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Memory Feeling Strike Strings Senses

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Christopher Hitchens

Live People Long Talk Cancer Come

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

Beautiful Time Me Face Weekend Look

This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

Thomas Traherne

Moment Space Moments Infinite Room

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Rich Three Years Days Would Who

All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.

Music Time Light People Dark I Can

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

Kevin Richardson

Grandfather Grandmother Her Gospel

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