"The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something."

-- Malik Yusef

#Rivers Quotes #Age Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.”

Source : "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.
“Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts. It needs to generate a kneejerk reaction.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.”
“For getting lean and trying to get toned, it's not about having a low weight and maximising as many reps as possible.”

Source : Source: www.askmen.com
“I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.”
“Quitting is leading too.”
“When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
“Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.”

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