"I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that."

-- Hawa Abdi

#Government Quotes #Tangible Quotes #Helping Quotes

“To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.”
“I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.”
“I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.”

Source : Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.
“I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.”
“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”

Source : Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary”, p.1, Penguin
“The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.”
“My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.”
“Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.”

Source : "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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