"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Travel Quotes #Europe Quotes #People Quotes

“Watch the film, not the stopwatch.”
“When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.”
“Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]”
“I must find a truth that is true for me.”
“The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”
“Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.”
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”

Source : Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.
“When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.”

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