"The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Ousmane Sembene

#Hard Work Quotes #Mean Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.”

Source : Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"
“I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.”
“In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.”

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“True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.”
“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsÂ—it had nothing to do with the color of themÂ—I just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”
“I paint what I see and not what others like to see.”

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