"Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense."

-- Angelique Kidjo

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“In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Smoking's a way to let you down slowly from a ballgame. It also makes you use less of the resources around. It makes people better in the way they act towards society. Everybody's nicer. It's hard to be mean when you're stoned.”
“I have been practising since I was 4 or 5 years old, but that wasn't really practice. I was just having fun.... I just loved to play hockey.”
“The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably the only spiritual path that excludes nothing and no one, and, in this way, it corresponds to the deep aspirations of men and women today.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“Debate is so much better than denial.”

Source : "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.
“The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.”

Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black
“The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.”
“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much.”

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