"Burn, baby, burn,â€ she muttered in a hard, satisfied voice. I cleared my throat. â€œAs much as I hate to interrupt the supreme satisfaction youâ€™re taking in watching the mansion blaze to the ground, Iâ€™d really like to get out of here before the whole house collapses on top of us."

-- Jennifer Estep

#Baby Quotes #Hate Quotes #Voice Quotes

“And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”
“Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.”
“However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.”
“We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.”
“Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.”
“Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.”
“It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.”
“You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 202), 1986.

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