"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."

-- Maya Soetoro-Ng

#People Quotes #Whole Family Quotes #Whole Quotes

“You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 17, 2009.
“Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.”
“The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry Â— chock full of it.”

Source : James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.260
“Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Improvisation is a compositional method.”
“Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go.”

Source : Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.79, Oxford University Press
“For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.”
“What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.”

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