"There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Legs Quotes

“I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.”
“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
“It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.”
“The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.”
“I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.”
“Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.”

Source : Stanislao Cannizzaro (1910). “Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy”
“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”
“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.”

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