"To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Confidence Quotes #Mean Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.”
“It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.”
“When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.”
“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.”
“True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.”
“Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.”
“What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.”
“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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