"The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer."

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

John Gimlette

#Glasses Quotes #Years Quotes #Organization Quotes

“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”
“It’s not a playoff game, it’s like the Super Bowl. … This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they’re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I’m sure that I’m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.”
“Let my enemies devour each other.”
“When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.”

Source : Eugene Paul Wigner (2013). “The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.28, Springer Science & Business Media
“They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
“I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.”
“Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.”
“As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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