"Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills."

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Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

J. Maarten Troost

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..”
“The world provides no cheerleaders on the pathway to godliness.”
“I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.”
“Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.”

Source : "Ethiopia proves there can be life after death" by Jonathan Dimbleby, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2002.
“You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It's fun, but it's not simple fun.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is no question- love is the answer”
“Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.”
“Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.”

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