"Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages."

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Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

David Bezmozgis

#People Quotes #Personality Quotes #Different Quotes

“An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.”
“In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.”
“There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.”
“It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.”

Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". Interview with Jan Egeland, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”
“If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.”
“The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.”

Source : "The Sacred in Music". Book by Albert L. Blackwell, 1999.
“I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If I knock him out, it will just put another feather in my cap. I'm predicting a win, but I never look for the knockout because that's not my game plan. If my punches result in a knockout, so be it.”

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