"This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it."

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Source : Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary (1993). “I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone”, New York : Da Capo Press

Nina Simone

#World Quotes #Made Quotes

“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.”
“The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.”

Source : "Bush, Blair to hold summit on Iraq", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.
“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.”
“Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.”
“Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.”

Source : Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.”
“Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.”
“University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.”

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