#we

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#know #look #much #older #than

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

A puny body weakens the soul. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#puny #soul #weakens

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#clothes #expression #face #far #her

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives. ↗

— Robert Caro

#because #biography #democracy #examine #famous

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often. ↗

— William Cavendish

#before #come #extremity #gentle #half

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. ↗

— Robert Caro

#day #every #every day #example #how

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years. ↗

— Robert Caro

#anything #being #comes #democracy #elected

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cinema #festival #film #film festival #i

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. ↗

— Robert Caro

#comes #democracy #elected #know #power