"I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights."

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Source : Source: www.elle.com

Emily Raboteau

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes

“I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.”
“It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)”
“It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.”

Source : Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”
“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
“It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1963). “Notes on a cellar-book”
“In marketing, the familiar is everything.”
“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.”
“Goals dictate how matches go.”

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