"If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for."

-- Thomas Mapfumo

#Mean Quotes #Zimbabwe Quotes #People Quotes

“Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.”
“One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.”
“I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.”
“First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.”
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
“Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.”
“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.”

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