"Abdellatif [LaÃ¢bi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects."

-- Andre Naffis-Sahely

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“I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.”

Source : "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Marci Fierman, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2002.
“I don't like to use the words "real women," honestly. I like to use the word woman. And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin, or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people. At the end of the day we just all want to be known as women or models or actresses or whatever.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.”
“The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.”
“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”
“I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.”
“The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.”
“A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States.Â But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing themselves without consciously agreeing to surrender their rights to privacy.Â [He] has a huge number of documents that would be very harmful to the US government if they were made public.”

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