"I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda."

-- Paul Farmer

#Thinking Quotes #Rebuilding Quotes #Haiti Quotes

“If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.”
“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.”
“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his viewâ€”even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: â€˜charactersâ€™ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”
“Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. â€¦ Heâ€™s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.”
“The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.”
“Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.”
“I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me”

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