"I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own.""

-- Sefi Atta

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“But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.”
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the PalÃ¦ozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.”
“The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.”
“Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.”
“I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, thereâ€™s still a thing called opportunity, and thatâ€™s what people need to pursue.”
“It was great for me getting a chance to grow up as a normal kid just out of the spotlight, versus all of them growing up in New York. They always had that intense media and spotlight on them.”
“In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.”

Source : "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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