"I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about"

-- Gay Talese

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Come Up Quotes

“When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world.”
“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.”
“You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.”
“Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.”
“I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.”
“I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.”
“As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.â€™â€¦ â€˜Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.â€™â€¦ â€˜Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.â€™â€¦ â€˜Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.â€™â€¦ â€˜And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.”

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