"We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority."

“Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com

“My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade.”

“My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.”

“If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press

“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

“Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”

Source : "Diamond in the Rough: More Fun Adventures with Abby Diamond". Book by Kristie Smith-Armand, July 2010.

“I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.”

“It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.”

Source : "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.