"I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that."

-- Yoshi Wada

#Mom Quotes #Father Quotes #School Quotes

“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”

Source : Andrew Lambirth, R. B. Kitaj (2004). “Kitaj”, Philip Wilson Publishers
“The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.”
“A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.”
“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”

Source : Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.20, Random House
“Given half an opportunity to go and play the way I'm playing at the moment, of course I would.”

Source : "Kevin Pietersen: England captain Eoin Morgan would love me in team" by Chris Stocks, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2015.
“The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”

Source : "Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction". Book by Kathrin Glüer, p. 213, December 5, 2011.
“I feel the world is over-saturated with [brand] products, and it isn't about what you're wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.”
“If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.”

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