"I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

“In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.”
“Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that through my work as a photographer, I have been able to pass on my appreciation of their beauty and charm.”
“I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.”
“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
“I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.”

Source : "A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 1987.
“I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our familiesâ€•but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.”
“[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.”

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