"Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines."

-- Julius Rosenwald

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“Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.”
“I advocate for people who believe sex work is work. But women have so many avenues open. In the same way, a trans woman or a hijra should have that many doors open. If later on she chooses sex work, that's fine. But she shouldn't have to choose sex work because all the other doors are closed. Every hijra or trans person is not a sex worker. We need our own respect. And whoever chooses sex work after having all doors open, I really respect that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.”
“It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.”
“Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.”
“It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.”
“Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.”

Source : "Forty years of women's lib" by Nawal El Saadawi, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.”

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