"If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Country Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes #Ddt Quotes

“I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.”
“I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.”
“Music has always been a huge part of my life.”

Source : Interview with Aditya Seth, thebanginbeats.wordpress.com. August 28, 2014.
“Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.”
“I did jazz dance for a few years.”

Source : "Without Her Happy Hookers" by Sharon Van Etten, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.
“Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.”
“Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took no notice. I pulled out my revolver and very nearly shot at them, but I thought it wouldn't do any good, as they all had their backs to me so would have thought that anyone hit was hit by a German bullet. If I ran after them my men might think I was running away. So I took my men on!”

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