"Only 4 percent of the people who live here [Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania] are actually foreign-born. And even fewer of those are refugees. So there's not a whole lot of experience with refugees here."

-- Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

#People Quotes #Born Quotes #Refugee Quotes

“I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.”
“Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.”
“The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills â€”self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter mostâ€” are the foundation for self-control.”
“I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.”

Source : "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret". Interview with Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.”
“Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.”
“Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.”
“I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.”

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