"I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichÃ©s, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Annia Ciezadlo

#Spring Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.”
“Lack of time is a real health killer.”
“the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.”

Source : Frances Wright (1822). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.21
“I have to recognize that I am agnostic.”
“Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.”
“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.”
“In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.”

Source : "Joe Elliott of Def Leppard" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2011.
“As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.”

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