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“Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce”
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“We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.”
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“It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters”
Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2014 
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“My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.”
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“What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.”
Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.473, Everyman's Library
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“You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.”
Source : Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.99, Courier Corporation
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“I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.”
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“Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.”
