"I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist."

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Source : "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.

Leymah Gbowee

#Country Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.”
“I have to make half of my decision based on what I think my fans will appreciate, and the other half has to be for my personal reasons.”
“Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being presented, and halfway through he just gets up, walks up to the podium, socks the mother****er right in the face and takes a piss all over his lecture notes.”
“I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.”
“When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'”
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.”
“My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to baby sit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: 'I'm sorry, this is too much work, I'm going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'”

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