"There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex."

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Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

John Amaechi

#Sex Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #School Quotes

“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”
“I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.”
“In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.”
“Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”
“I don't think about Hollywood at all.”
“Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.”
“There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.”
“The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.”

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