"My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Gary Shteyngart

#Talking Quotes #Parent Quotes #Kind Quotes

“But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.”
“I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'”
“I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.”
“God pursues me, he sacrificed for me, and he calls me his beloved! And, not just me... all of us.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”

Source : Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2009). “Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II”, p.17, Harper Collins
“When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.”

Source : "Why are the catwalks so white?". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percentâ€”as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every wayâ€”to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.”

Source : "Scott Pelley: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again’". Scott Pelley's speech at the accepting his Fred Friendly First Amendment award at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club in New York, www.adweek.com. May 10, 2013.
“I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something I share with other Black descendants of America and both of those identities are of equal importance to me.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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