"I want to understand more about the world while Im still here."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#World Quotes #Want Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.”

Source : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.160, Crown Business
“Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.”
“Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.”
“Equality is a mortuary word.”
“People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.”
“The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.”
“The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.”
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”

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