"Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it."

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Adventure Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Retrospect Quotes

“For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...”
“I have an opportunity to look kids in the face and let them know it's not about where you come from; it's how you use what you have to get to where you need to be.”
“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”

Source : Letter to a former band-mate in Fraternity, 'Uncle' John Ayres, c. 1979.
“Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them.”
“People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2013
“The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.60, Pluto Press
“I couldn't imagine not having clean water.”
“Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.”

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