"People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

John Gimlette

#Thinking Quotes #Europe Quotes #People Quotes

“Talent is a valued tormentor.”
“To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.”
“Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet”

Source : Song: Still D.R.E.-Feat. Snoop Dogg, Album: Dr. Dre 2001
“I want to live a good life and pay my taxes. 'The Killing' was a blessing. It was two wonderful years. But I had reached a point in my life, especially with a young son, that I was no longer willing to compromise my life for the sake of a paycheque. I was no longer willing to move where the tax credits are strong.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build. Its temperament is desperate. It is a tormented response to the past, to all that has happened, the recalled and unrecalled injusticesâ€”for the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists.”

Source : "The Consequences of Dreams" by Hisham Matar, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2014.
“Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love”
“For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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