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Dinaw Mengestu

"It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made."

-- Dinaw Mengestu

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“The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.
“Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.”
“He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”
“The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.”
“Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.”
“I don't want to rewrite history.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium.. as everyone's printing press.. is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.”

Source : "A Conversation with Jessica Sanchez". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.
“You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.”

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