"the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Anger Quotes #Mad Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.”
“Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.”

Source : "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.
“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
“Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.”
“Prisons are the universities of the opposition.”
“The imagination never dies.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.”
“Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.”

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