"And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.”
“One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.”
“My wealth came from growing businesses. I had wealth, but not liquidity. Basically I transferred illiquid shares of AIC for liquid shares of Manulife. Now I'm the biggest individual shareholder of Manulife.”
“Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as â€œgoodâ€ minorities and African Americans are represented as â€œbadâ€ minorities. Here, the achievements of Asian Americans are used to discipline African Americans. As model minorities, Asian Americans achieved the status of â€œhonorary Whitesâ€. Again it is important to point out that the honorary whiteness of Asian Americans was granted at the expense of Blacks. It is also significant that as â€œhonorary Whites,â€ Asian Americans do not have the actual privileges associated with â€œrealâ€ whiteness.”
“The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable”
“For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what â€˜my own goodâ€™ truly was”
“I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit, Robin Windsor ('Strictly Come Dancing')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. October 31, 2010.
“If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.”

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