"I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ahmet Zappa

#Frustrating Quotes

“Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.”
“I think Democrats are always challenged to have a unified message, and it's in part because our strength is our diversity as a party, but our weakness is also the fact that because we're so diverse, we have a hard time getting on one page on message.”

Source : "Heinrich Does Not Shy From Voting Record". Interview with Erin McPike, Scott Conroy, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 14, 2010.
“Everything that I write will be signed with my name.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (2016). “The Reflections of Ambrosine”, p.4, Read Books Ltd
“Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.”
“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.
“To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.”
“Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.”

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