"We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?"

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Moon Quotes #People Quotes #Mosquitoes Quotes

“England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.”
“About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.”
“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”
“Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.”
“In #â€Ž France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.”
“I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.”
“The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were the story tellers, and the stories were allegorically written truths: where we came from, how we migrated over this river, got with this tribe, became this nation, and tamed the mountains. It changed from that to being purely entertainment. And once it became purely entertainment, it lost something.”
“I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.”

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