"All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing."

-- David Baldacci

#Running Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I want to be different. Just like all the other different people I want to be like. I want to be just like all the different people and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me.”
“Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.”

Source : "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
“Under Sharia law, If a woman has money, she can invest her money. The thing is, what we are concerned about is, in the public arena, there's a difference between a man and a woman. We would have complete segregation in the public arena, but other than that, if she wants to go to the market, if she wants to go to visit her relatives or for medicine or for education. There's a whole host of reasons why she would be out and about but, what we are saying is she not obliged to work. That is the job of the man.”

Source : Source: www.yahoo.com
“Slow down, simplify and be kind.”

Source : Naomi Judd (2008). “Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully: Facts, Myths, and Good News for Boomers”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”
“I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.”

Source : "No drama-queen dreams for Jessica Simpson". www.today.com. August 1, 2005.
“Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.”

Source : Speech at Stirling, 23 Nov. 1905, in Daily News 24 Nov. 1905
“Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.”

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