"Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba."

-- Ban Ki-moon

#Attitude Quotes #Law Quotes #Cuba Quotes

“But whenâ€™s the last time you took a chance? Or didnâ€™t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldnâ€™t have?”
“The secret of survival is a defective imagination.”
“Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.”
“I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.”
“I get sentimental over the music of the â€™90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as Iâ€™m concerned the â€™90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype
“I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!”
“I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.”
“In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.”

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