"Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling."

-- Philip Emeagwali

#School Quotes #Years Quotes #Eight Quotes

“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.”
“Memories are like water.”
“As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.”
“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.”
“I have a feeling only for shadows”
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.”

Source : "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.
“Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place”

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