"When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne."

-- Dorian Corey

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“The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.”
“What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.”
“What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company
“On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'”
“Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.”
“Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I donâ€™t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.”
“Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.”

Source : "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.
“People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.”

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