"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."

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Source : "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

Amy Tan

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“If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.”
“Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power”
“I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.”
“Many of my staff have been with me for over 20 years. I have a great team, and I make sure they feel respected and appreciated.”
“The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.”

Source : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
“I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
“The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.”
“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.”

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