"Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club, September 14, 1997.
“Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well.”

Source : "It’s All About the People!" by Ron Gutman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.”
“Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Getting people into the wilderness for a transcendent experience empowers people for years, if not for their entire lives.”
“Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.”
“Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.”
“I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like that. You go through vast, boring stretches, but the voices are always so fascinating and slowly a story begins to emerge. It's very much like playing detective.”

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