"I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it."

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Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Intelligent Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Oil Quotes

“I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere.”

Source : "AT WORK WITH: Evelyn Lauder; From Pink Lipstick To Pink Ribbons" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1995.
“It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore.”
“The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.”
“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”
“Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing”
“In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.”
“We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.”
“There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.”

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