"What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.'"

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Dhani Jones

#Sports Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.”
“I've always been kind of surrounded by music my whole life, so my earliest memories of it were just hearing it in the house.”
“At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.”
“There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.”

Source : "American Liberals and the Streets of Cairo". newrepublic.com. January 29, 2011.
“...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.”
“As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.”
“I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.”

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