"I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?"

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Source : Source: collider.com

Marjane Satrapi

#War Quotes #Years Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.”
“There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.”
“Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.”
“You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.”
“The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.”
“It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.”

Source : David Holmgren (2012). “Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change”, p.115, Chelsea Green Publishing
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”

Source : The Waking (1953) p. 120
“No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.”

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