"I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you."

-- Amy Tan

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Survivor Quotes

“For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

Source : Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books
“A man in this world must solve a problem: to be with Christ, or to be against Him. And every man decides this, whether he wants to or not. He will either be a lover of Christ or a fighter of Christ. There is no third option.”
“I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'”
“Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.”
“Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.”

Source : James Randi (1993). “The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer”
“Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it.”
“Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.”

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