"One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it."

-- Paul Theroux

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.”
“In the Mediterranean of my childhood, there were no large groupers, sharks, or whales. All I saw was seaweed and a few fish, smaller than my little diving mask. All the large animals were gone, simply because we had eaten them.”
“My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.”
“My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.”

Source : "New wonder kid on the block" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.
“We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.”
“[H]istory is seen in a rear-view mirror while the future is the dark, foggy road ahead, filled with unknown trouble.”
“Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.”
“On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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