"Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Amma Asante

#Culture Quotes #Who You Are Quotes

“Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012
“I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.”
“Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.”
“Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies!”
“To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.”
“Ah, yes, my social life â€” a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.”
“Adventure is a sign of incompetence.”

Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “My Life with the Eskimos”
“I went down to London with the idea that I was going to do vocals over this crazy, crazy trip-hop digital beat. Within two or three months, I heard Hunky Dory by David Bowie and that changed me in one way, and I realized what I actually wanted was to have an E Street Band - individuals, not session musicians.”

Source : "The Eyes Have It". Barnes & Noble Interview with David Sprague, web.archive.org. February 2006.

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