Week End Quotes

• What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

  Julian Fellowes

  Week, Maggie, Ends

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• Nada es más peligroso en tiempos de guerra que vivir en la atmósfera temperamental de una encuesta Gallup, siempre tomándose el pulso y la temperatura. Veo que un orador dijo el fin de semana que ésta era una época en la que los líderes debían mantener los oídos bien abiertos. Todo lo que puedo decir es que a la nación británica le resultará muy difícil admirar a los líderes que se detecten en esa postura un tanto desgarbada.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Leader, Feelings

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). "Los papeles de guerra de Churchill: The Ever-Widening War 1941", William Heinemann

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• Cuando termina la Semana de la Moda, echo de menos los desfiles y la inyección de adrenalina que conllevan. Cada día es un desfile nuevo, una prueba nueva, y haces nuevas amigas. Cada temporada conoces un poco mejor a las demás chicas.

  Magdalena Frackowiak

  Girl, Fashion, Missing

  "Model Hot Seat: Magdalena Frackowiak", por Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. 11 de septiembre de 2009.

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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Integrity, Independence

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• Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".

  Will Rogers

  Promise, Done, Politics

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• Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, Dollars, Scarcity

  Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.59, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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• The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Summer, Home, Successful

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