"Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan."

-- Ilya Ilf

#Uzbekistan Quotes #Irrigation Quotes #Drank Quotes

“To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).”
“You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.”
“I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.”

Source : "Melanie Fiona Talks New Album, Whitney Houston And Starting Her Clothing Line". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.
“This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!”
“â€ŽImprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.”
“If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.”
“Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.”
“I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.”

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