"I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them."

-- Valeria Luiselli

#Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes #World Quotes

“Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.”

Source : "Could cows and sheep halt climate change and tackle rural poverty?" by Judith D Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
“We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.”
“I'm the most successful bad player ever.”

Source : "Greatest competitor: Andy Roddick". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.
“The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.”

Source : LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”
“I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.”
“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.”
“Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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