“Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people.”
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)
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Quoted in Questions & Answers, Share International https://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2018/2018-10.htm#q-n-a (October 2018)
Share International Magazine
Source: Good to Great, 2001, p. 46
“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”
Source: Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
On her past rivalry with Iman in “10 Questions With Beverly Johnson” https://time.com/4004384/10-questions-with-beverly-johnson/ in Time Magazine (2015 Aug 20)
“But bringing people together is what music has always done best.”
Source: Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
2000s, 2008, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2008)
Context: In the decades ahead, the United Nations and other multilateral organizations must continually confront terror. This mission requires clarity of vision. We must see the terrorists for what they are: ruthless extremists who exploit the desperate, subvert the tenets of a great religion, and seek to impose their will on as many people as possible. Some suggest that these men would pose less of a threat if we'd only leave them alone. Yet their leaders make clear that no concession could ever satisfy their ambitions. Bringing the terrorists to justice does not create terrorism; it's the best way to protect our people.
“I try to bring out the subversive side of people.”
Interview with V. Vale https://vimeo.com/37583048 by Henry Rollins at LA Zine Fest (2013)
Independence Day speech (1828)
Context: Where men then are free to consult experience they will correct their practice, and make changes for the better. It follows, therefore, that the more free men are, the more changes they will make. In the beginning, possibly, for the worse; but most certainly in time for the better; until their knowledge enlarging by observation, and their judgment strengthening by exercise, they will find themselves in the straight, broad, fair road of improvement. Out of change, therefore, springs improvement; and the people who shall have imagined a peaceable mode of changing their institutions, hold a surety for their melioration. This surety is worth all other excellences. Better were the prospects of a people under the influence of the worst government who should hold the power of changing it, that those of a people under the best who should hold no such power. Here, then is the great beauty of American government.
