"I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony."

-- Cyndi Lauper

“Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.”
“We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.”
“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
“I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.”
“There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress.”
“Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.”
“I must settle for freedom in this modern time”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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