"I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions."

-- Kola Boof

#Writing Quotes #Army Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.”
“News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
“If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.”
“All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.”
“I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.”
“Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn about showing up on time. The sheer volume of work, on a daily basis, blows your mind and forces you to really work that muscle of memorization and just being able to change things on your feet.”
“The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.”

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