"It is hard to know if what you are going to do in life is up to you, or a sum of the contribution of others, plus the circumstances you are born into."

-- Carlos Machado

#Up To You Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Born Quotes

“Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty”
“I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.”
“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”
“I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.”
“Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'”
“There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.”
“Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.”
“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation”

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