"There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past."

-- Isaac Asimov

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“I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.”
“I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.”

Source : "Yael Naim Loves Rihanna Too". Interview with Nojan Aminosharei, www.elle.com. May 10, 2011.
“He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Astrid. Clean-cut, righteous, all that. The perfect couple. He and Diana were the imperfect couple.”
“I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 76), 1985.
“As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.”
“Music is how you feel.”
“Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But these are precisely the inheritance that we want to overcome. Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.”
“To really talk about African story, and teach this story, you have to teach that tribes were actually nations. You have to teach that chiefs were actually kings, with kingdoms. You have to teach that there was a structure that worked in Africa prior to colonialism. You have to teach that countries were colonized that were doing fine by themselves. And that's uncomfortable.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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